by Robyn Brickel | Oct 26, 2023 | CPTSD and PTSD, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor, Mental Health Professional
Are your healthcare providers communicating? Do your doctors talk to each other? Are they collaborating with your therapist? Your dietician? If not, it’s time they do! Here’s why… We are all interconnected beings! Parts of us do not exist outside of our whole being. ...
by Ramon Diaz | Aug 15, 2023 | CPTSD, Guest Contributor, Mental Health Professional
Recently, a sporting scandal broke out at a prestigious university in the US, Northwestern University. To this point, more stories are coming out to the public that suggests the scandal is bigger than what reporters originally thought it would be. The psychology...
by LWK | Aug 11, 2023 | ACEs, CPTSD and PTSD, Guest Contributor, Mental Health Professional
***TRIGGER WARNING: The following post discusses sensitive topics, including sexual trauma.*** Downplaying CPTSD It’s not a comfortable feeling knowing that as clinicians we get things wrong. It is inevitable that we do – to err is human. We learn to try to...
by Milena "Mila" Stankovic | Jun 21, 2023 | Dr. Jamie Huyman, Guest Contributor, Mental Health Professional, TAR Tales, Trauma-Informed
Dr. Jamie, a trauma-certified therapist and our advisor wholeheartedly believes that caregiving has been too reliant on co-dependency as a core issue of compassion fatigue. Many of us care for our dependents: adults, seniors, and children because of genuine love....
by Milena "Mila" Stankovic | Jun 9, 2023 | Caregiving, Guest Contributor, Mental Health Advocacy, Mental Health Professional
How to take care of yourself by still being supportive of a trauma survivor. When a partner, friend, or family member has complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) it can affect their loved ones. CPTSD isn’t easy to live with and it can take a heavy toll on...
by Ramon Diaz | Apr 18, 2023 | Body Chemistry, COVID-19, CPTSD and PTSD, Guest Contributor, Mental Health Professional
Adolescents throughout the U.S. face psychosocial challenges they may not even be aware of at this point in time The stage of development in primates we refer to as “adolescence” sits in between the stages of childhood and adulthood. The COVID crisis has contributed...
