by Rebekah Brown | May 27, 2022 | CPTSD, Dissociation and CPTSD, Emotional Flashbacks, Emotional Wellness, Feeling Good Enough
An autumn wind blew dry leaves across the old Victorian tombstones. A hundred-year-old oak shaded the resting places of people long dead, from another time, another place, another century. The funerary art was interesting, but it was the inscriptions that...
by Heidi Fischer | May 2, 2022 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Dissociation and CPTSD, Guest Contributor, Healing Self-Shame, Hope, Mindfulness, Occupational Mental Health & CPTSD, Self Care, Symptoms of CPTSD, Trauma, Treatment, Triggers
This article was originally published on The Mighty, on March 24th, 2022 I am a champion face-planter. I am also highly skilled at tripping over nothing, walking into door frames, and tipping things over. This illustrious title hasn’t won me any medals, rather the...
by Heidi Fischer | Apr 27, 2022 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Dissociation and CPTSD, Guest Contributor, Mindfulness, Self Care, Symptoms of CPTSD, Trauma
I have lived most of my life thinking that deep breathing (and all its cousins) were something people had, collectively agreed to B.S. about. Not because they were being malicious, but due to some sort of worldwide agreed-upon fiction. Matching your breath to...
by Cyndi Bennett | Mar 16, 2022 | Attachment Trauma, Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, Guest Contributor, Occupational Mental Health & CPTSD, Post Traumatic Growth
With the advent of working from home during COVID, we have all seen and chuckled at the videos going around of people either not being on mute and wishing they were, or people being on mute and wondering why people were not listening to them. Now, there is the double...
by Gabe Keye | Sep 28, 2021 | CPTSD and PTSD, Treatment, War & Combat Trauma
Asking For Help Doesn’t Make You Weak If you’re a veteran or first responder, I assume you’ve survived your fair share. If that’s the case, you’re also probably stronger for it. So why does it feel so hard sometimes? Oftentimes we think that we’re strong enough to...
