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When Empathy Runs Out: Understanding Moral Exhaustion in Trauma-Exposed Professionals
A forensic and trauma-psychology analysis of moral exhaustion—the quiet burnout that emerges when those who protect, heal, or investigate humanity lose faith in its goodness.
Living With Trauma: A Life On The Edge
Living with Trauma is not easy. It can include a daily rollercoaster of emotions, most of which are unwelcome. It feels like being inside a constant washer spin cycle of hurling emotions, as we...
The Power of Positive Thinking: If You Believe it - You Can Achieve it
How are you doing? How is life treating you at the moment? Life doesn’t need to crash completely for you to feel “down on your luck.” A failed promotion, a work project that didn’t go as planned,...
Natural Limit Systems Design Principles
This is not a journey; it is a placement.
It is the slow recognition of safe conditions and coordinates
that allow you to move across thresholds—
and to return—without ever being lost.
Born Tired: Why Trauma Survivors Often Find Comfort in Antinatalist Logic
Antinatalism isn’t born of apathy. It’s born of empathy that has run out of oxygen. In trauma-dense lives and professions, the nervous system learns to equate vigilance with virtue. When every attempt to stop harm fails, the mind begins to see prevention itself as morality—even if that prevention means non-creation. This is a forensic, trauma-informed examination of how antinatalist logic grows not from apathy but from empathy stretched past human capacity.
Mirror, Mirror — Who is that Person Staring at Me?
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...
Not Another Year of Pushing
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...
Finding Freedom in My Individuality and Overcoming the Fear of Not Being Liked
I still remember the name of their exclusive club: CHABELCK. In seventh grade, the children at my middle school traded their Nintendos and Polly Pocket dolls for iPhones and Barbie dolls--in the...
Scrubbed Innocence: Resurrecting My Words and Worth
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...
Why Being an Ally to the LGBTQ+ Community Matters — Especially in Mental Health
At our therapy practice, we believe that everyone deserves to feel seen, safe, and supported—exactly as they are. As therapists, we have the honor of walking alongside people in their most...
The Research Gap: Filicide Survivors
***TRIGGER WARNING - This article discusses ACE's, child abuse, and murder, and may be traumatic for some readers*** Filicide (n): is the deliberate act of a parent killing their own child. In...
The Loudest Things: Why Speaking Up Matters When Life is Not Feeling Right
Imagine that it's late in the day, and you are still at the office. You're stuck in a meeting that has dragged on for hours, and your boss is giving a boring presentation on budgets and project...
What is Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
“Complex PTSD comes in response to chronic traumatization over the course of months or, more often, years. This can include emotional, physical, and/or sexual abuses, domestic violence, living in a war zone, being held captive, human trafficking, and other organized rings of abuse, and more. While there are exceptional circumstances where adults develop C-PTSD, it is most often seen in those whose trauma occurred in childhood”.
