by Jesse Donahue | Oct 29, 2024 | CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Guest Contributor
The Man Who Lives Under the BridgeBy Jesse Donahue 2017 ©There is a man who lives in a large drainage culvert that goes under a road near my home. He has been there for nearly a decade. You see him frequently, standing out on the sidewalk at the large drainage pipe...
by Madelon Wise | Mar 3, 2023 | ACEs, CPTSD, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Family Estrangement, Grief, Guest Contributor
Mom died in July 1960 at the age of 42 when I was 9 years old. My father remarried a year later. They said that it was a heart attack. Later in life, my oldest brother, Mike, and I would speculate for hours on end over glasses of wine about whether she had taken her...
by Paul Michael Marinello | Jul 13, 2022 | 12 Step Programs, CPTSD, Gaslighting, Grief, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Parental Alienation
“I will admit, in my darkest moments my hope for others is much clearer than my hope for myself.” Anna-Maija Lee For the purposes of understanding this post, please review the following terms as it comes to parental alienation, alienating parent (a parent or loved one...