by Dr. Mozelle Martin | Jul 15, 2025 | CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor, Mental Health Advocacy, Mental Health Professional
Therapy is supposed to be where healing starts, not where damage gets rerouted through the back door. But that’s exactly what happens when guidance turns into suggestion. When therapists push too hard for answers, clients start delivering what they think is expected....
by Grace Wilkinson | Jun 26, 2025 | CPTSD, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor, Mental Health Advocacy, Mindfulness
My therapist has been a sounding board to my trauma for more than four years, and in that time, she has been my teacher, my listener, observer, my audience, and my inspiration! I am incredibly lucky that I met her and that the connection was organic and natural. It...
by Dr. Mozelle Martin | Jun 23, 2025 | Brain Chemistry, CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Ethics, Guest Contributor, Mental Health Advocacy, Mental Health Professional
Let’s skip the hashtags and therapy TikToks, and Reddit and YouTube therapists for a minute. The internet has turned mental health language into a kind of social currency. And right now, it’s in a state of inflation. Everyone’s a narcissist. Every disagreement...
by Bonni Benton | Dec 31, 2024 | CPTSD, CPTSD and Narcissistic Abuse, Domestic Violence, Gaslighting, Healing from Toxic Shame, Mental Health Advocacy
Part 5 of 5. Read the previous post here: https://cptsdfoundation.org/2024/10/09/the-weaponization-of-ambiguity-a-call-to-rename-npd-to-support-victims-of-sociopathic-violence-in-a-world-of-rising-narcissism-part-4/ Mushrooms are notorious for only being...
by Bonni Benton | Oct 9, 2024 | CPTSD and Narcissistic Abuse, Domestic Violence, Gaslighting, Healing from Toxic Shame, Mental Health Advocacy
Continued from: https://cptsdfoundation.org/2024/09/25/the-weaponization-of-ambiguity-a-call-to-rename-npd-to-support-victims-of-sociopathic-violence-in-a-world-of-rising-narcissism-part-3/ I want to preface the following with a distinction between “a narc” and...
by Bonni Benton | Sep 25, 2024 | CPTSD and Narcissistic Abuse, Domestic Violence, Gaslighting, Guest Contributor, Healing from Toxic Shame, Mental Health Advocacy
Continued from Part 2: https://cptsdfoundation.org/2024/09/19/the-weaponization-of-ambiguity-a-call-to-rename-npd-to-support-victims-of-sociopathic-violence-in-a-world-of-rising-narcissism-part-2/ In an oversaturated language, I ran out of words to describe the extent...