by Dr. Mozelle Martin | Feb 10, 2026 | CPTSD, Guest Contributor, Mental Health Professional, Pyschotherapy
There is a form of burnout that doesn’t show up on standard checklists. It can’t be fixed with vacations, lighter caseloads, or yoga retreats. It appears when the moral compass itself begins to fracture—when work once grounded in purpose starts to feel like complicity...
by Dr. Mozelle Martin | Feb 2, 2026 | Brain Chemistry, CPTSD, Guest Contributor, Mental Health Professional
Antinatalism is often mislabeled as nihilism. It isn’t hatred of life, nor is it the rejection of love. In clinical reality, it is what happens when empathy outruns endurance—when people who have witnessed too much pain begin to believe that non-creation is the final...
by Elizabeth Woods | Jan 29, 2026 | CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Guest Contributor, Healing from Toxic Shame
Hey, how are you feeling today? Have you taken some time for yourself today? If you are a trauma survivor, the answer is probably not. As survivors, the last person we think about is ourselves because we have spent years being suppressed into believing that we don’t...
by Rachel Grant | Jan 28, 2026 | CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor
As we step into a new year, I’ve been reflecting a lot on what it truly means to heal–not just from trauma, but from the related patterns of pushing, proving, and overriding ourselves in the name of productivity, success, or even “purpose.”Recently, I...
by Heather Jurvelin | Jan 26, 2026 | ACEs, Childhood Sexual Abuse, CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, CPTSD Poetry, Guest Contributor
Trigger Warning: Detailed Description of Child Abuse I wrote this poem a few months ago, drawing from the well of ancient, long-buried feelings about the first time my mom forced my mouth open and poured Dawn dish soap into it. I was four. Although I had received...
