by G Garcia | Jul 5, 2022 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Family Estrangement, Relationships, Self-Acceptance, Sexual Abuse
Trigger Warning: This blog contains sexual abuse I remember the legal process more than the trauma itself. I’ve come to appreciate that memory loss, a defense mechanism that I’ve had a love-hate relationship with for the past decade. I was young, sitting in a...
by Rebekah Brown | Jun 30, 2022 | Attachment Trauma, Boundaries, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, Emotional Wellness, Family Estrangement, Guest Contributor, Relationships, Trauma
How A Trauma Bond is Formed Scaly grey snake heads with the dead black eyes of a reptile weaved back and forth. Bright red tongues darted to and fro. They covered the Uhaul. I couldn’t look away. Out on my daily walk with Tiny, the chihuahua, I pulled my wheelchair...
by Rebekah Brown | Jun 23, 2022 | Attachment Trauma, CPTSD, Relationships, Trauma
Trauma changes the bonding mechanism of relationships. It changes how we are wired and it changes our ability to attach to other people. When the primary source of relationships is rooted in abuse, a core wound is created. In my case, both parents were perpetrators of...
by Sylvie Rouhani | Jun 9, 2022 | CPTSD, Family Estrangement, Guest Contributor, LGBTQ, LGBTQ and Complex Trauma Healing, Parental Alienation, Recovery, Relationships, Sexual Abuse
Trigger Warning: This blog deals with childhood sexual abuse. Some of us, within the LGBTQA+ community, face additional barriers when disclosing our stories of child sexual abuse. The myths and misconceptions about sexuality and child abuse are hurting us and...
by Sylvie Rouhani | May 20, 2022 | Abandonment and CPTSD, ACEs, Addiction, Attachment Trauma, Codependency, Emotional Flashbacks, Guest Contributor, Healing Codependency, Relationships, Self-Acceptance
When a new relationship starts (actually, it doesn’t even need to start), we are overwhelmed with emotional flashbacks from younger “Inner Parts” desperate to be loved, protected, and supported. and other parts of us will do anything to appease these...
by Shirley Davis | Apr 4, 2022 | Childhood Sexual Abuse, Relationships
Trigger Warning The following piece deals with incest and is not suitable for all readers. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ There is possibly no topic more controversial or taboo than speaking about incest....
