by Rebekah Brown | Apr 20, 2022 | Abandonment and CPTSD, ACEs, Attachment Trauma, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD and Narcissistic Abuse, Depression, Guest Contributor, Trauma
My mother died this morning. I knew the time was near but didn’t quite believe it would actually happen. She had lived for so long and did so much damage—I had grown accustomed to her shadow. I thought she would live forever. Institutionalized for over twenty-five...
by Jess | Feb 19, 2021 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, CPTSD Research, Depression, Dissociation and CPTSD, Guest Contributor, Hypervigilance, Symptoms of CPTSD, The Brain and CPTSD, Trauma-Informed
Today I wanted to take a step back and talk about something that I researched relatively recently for a different project. Something that has only become more relevant in my life as this post has sat around, untouched. The connections between rumination, depression,...
by Jess | Jan 15, 2021 | ACEs, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD and Narcissistic Abuse, CPTSD and PTSD, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Depression, Family Estrangement, Grief, Guest Contributor, Healing from Toxic Shame
Let’s talk about this untimely death situation. Well. This is a big topic that I’m not sure how to tackle, per se. Death is a new one to me. I’ve been relatively lucky that way. The death of the person who passed down most of our family trauma… that’s an even...
by J Bradley O | Dec 30, 2020 | ACEs, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Depression, Emotional Wellness, Feeling Good Enough, Men's Mental Health, Mindfulness
Though I don’t like to think about it, I sometimes wonder how I went from enthusiastically running a service business that doubled every year from word of mouth alone to homeless, struggling not so proudly just to get by. It was a long, slow decline. Overall, it took...
by J Bradley O | Oct 28, 2020 | Complex PTSD Healing, Depression, Emotional Flashbacks, Family Estrangement, Grief, Healthy Relationships, Holiday Stress, Mindfulness, Surviving the Holidays
Chilled and humid, the air sticks to my skin. The sky is thickly overcast, a shock after three warm days of sunshine. Is this the perfect background for my somber mood or the conditions that provoke it? October starts a long anniversary I don’t want to recall, much...
