by Jack Brody | Oct 6, 2026 | Generational Trauma, Healthy Relationships, Men's Mental Health, Parenting With Trauma
I used to think healing would look different. I imagined some major moment where everything suddenly clicked into place. Waking up one morning and realizing I was no longer carrying the weight of the past, overthinking every conversation, no longer replaying old...
by Jack Brody | Jul 28, 2026 | Childhood Sexual Abuse, Men's Mental Health, Relationships, Sexual Abuse, Trauma
There’s a weird thing that happens when you’re a male survivor of childhood abuse and you grow up. You live your life without announcing what happened to you as a kid. There’s no guidebook to follow. You just sort of wake up one day as an adult who’s technically...
by Jack Brody | Dec 15, 2025 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD and Inner Child Work, Guest Contributor, Men's Mental Health, Mental Health Awareness, Mindfulness
The Whiplash of Healing (And Why It Still Catches Me Off Guard) If you’ve read my blog for more than five minutes, you already know I’ve been on this healing ride for a long while. Long enough to have collected a whole scrapbook of “Oh wow, I finally get it” moments…...
by Jesse Donahue | Jul 30, 2025 | Guest Contributor, Journaling, Men's Mental Health, Pyschotherapy
What Am I Feeling? Copyright 2024 By Jesse Donahue What am I feeling? It has been four to five years since the concept of a trauma disorder made an appearance and a diagnosis in my life; I am sixty-eight years old. A diagnosis of CPTSD, a trauma disorder, was made by...
by STAR Network | Jun 20, 2024 | CPTSD and PTSD, Family Estrangement, Men's Mental Health, Mental Health Awareness, Parental Alienation, TAR Network
Many men stay in toxic, abusive relationships (TAR) due to a variety of complex reasons and deep-seated fears. One primary reason is men’s tendency to view themselves as “fixers.” Men often cling to the hope that they can repair the relationship,...
by Shirley Davis | Jan 16, 2023 | CPTSD and PTSD, Hope, Men's Mental Health, Mental Health Advocacy
**Trigger Warning** This article will be tough to read and may trigger some people. Caution is advised. Suicide is tricky to write about because it brings up so many negative connotations. Writing about male suicide is even trickier because I am not a man; in some...
