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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...
A Dragonfly Mosaic: My Journey from Fear to Love
My Story in Brief A Dragonfly Mosaic: My Journey from Fear to Love is the working title of the memoir I’m currently writing. It chronicles a lifetime shaped by complex trauma and my ongoing path...
The Silent Epidemic Oprah Televised
A trauma-informed examination of why millions of adults are cutting off family members, and why clean no contact is not cruelty but survival.
When the Past Keeps Chiming: Boundaries With Someone Who Lives Outside of Time
Each year during the Thanksgiving season, I open my storage unit to retrieve my Christmas ornaments. Next to the boxes sits an antique grandfather wall clock that once belonged to my former...
Breaking Free From Trauma: Three Simple Rules of Starting Again
Do you believe that we are put on this earth for a reason? You don’t have to be "spiritual" to believe. I believed in something more when I was growing up. It was my way of surviving my...
How Writing Helped a Survivor Heal – and Find Joy!
Give yourself the pleasure of a functional life filled with people who believe you, who trust you, love you, and who accept the beauty and the wonder that is your strength. I recently connected...
What is the Point?
WHAT IS THE POINT?By Jesse Donahue © 2023 Love, the theme of many songs and found in the words of poets, theologians, and philosophers alike, is too often hidden from man by his experienced and...
The Knock on the Door that Changed My World: Domestic Violence can Happen to Anyone
It was late, and my kids had gone to bed a few hours before. I was tired and getting ready to call it a night. A sudden knock on the door made me look up from my keyboard. It was a gentle knock,...
Cassandra’s Legacy: A Brief History of Gaslighting
Cassandra, the Prophetess of Troy, whose name in Greek means “she who entangles men,” rejected the sexual advances of the god Apollo in his temple. As punishment, Apollo invalidated Cassandra’s...
Meeting the Bear: What Nervous-System Healing Looks Like in Real Time
I am a mountain climber at heart, and I live in California, home to the Sierra Nevadas. I’ve spent much of my life moving through the backcountry with a pack on my shoulders. Over time, I learned...
My Skin Knows I’m a Survivor
One sweltering July when I was fifteen, I was camped out on a shaded picnic bench at nerd camp. While furiously pushing the buttons on my calculator and drilling exercises for my upcoming exam, I...
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”.
