by Susan Gold | Jun 25, 2025 | Anxiety, CPTSD and PTSD, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor
The world is noisy. Teachers, coaches, gurus, and self-help programs clamor for your attention, promising clarity, calm, and success in a chaotic world. Acronyms like SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound) and GROW (Goal, Reality, Options,...
by Jesse Donahue | Jun 19, 2025 | CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Expressive Writing, Guest Contributor
The Suit of Life A Message for Self-LoveBy Jesse Donahue 2023 © I can see the powerful impact that self-expression makes upon the world of others and, most fundamentally, within myself. The morning shines with a new day rising, and we don our clothes, our suit...
by Betsy Roy | Jun 17, 2025 | CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor
Repeated exposures to traumatic events. Events that overwhelm one’s sense of identity, capacity to comprehend what’s occurring, and force the body into a state of constant hypervigilance. Intrusive, repetitive, re-experiencing (memories, flashbacks,...
by Roseanne Reilly | Jun 16, 2025 | Body Chemistry, CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor
Taking the Edge Off Sadness There can be a sadness that emerges when we begin to truly see, when we wake up to the realization that we have lived much of our lives in survival stress. It is the grief of recognizing that our choices, our relationships, our very sense...
by Natalie Rose | Jun 11, 2025 | CPTSD, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Expressive Writing, Guest Contributor
TRIGGER WARNING: Writer’s Note: This post contains references to suicidal ideation, sexual assault, and psychiatric ward experiences. Names have been changed. Five words got me tied up on a stretcher in the back of this ambulance. Five words, starting with “I want”...
