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Creating Your Tribe: Building a Support System for Your Return to Work
Returning to work after a break can feel like stepping onto a tightrope. While you’re focused on moving forward, having a strong support system can be the safety net that gives you confidence and...
Heavy Emptiness: The Weight of Attachment Wounds
I don't always feel hopeful or strong. Abandoned insecurities masquerade as anxiety Splintering me into a million shards I seek safety in an impossibility ...
How a Song Can Set My Day Back By Decades
Do you listen to music? Music and the Arts are wonderful pastimes, and many of us enjoy relaxing to songs streaming in our ears. I don’t leave the house without my earbuds. My kids have fun...
Embracing My Superpowers as an Empath and Highly Sensitive Person
Recently, while I was waiting at a crowded restaurant, I found myself interacting with a toddler and his mother. I smiled, played peek-a-boo, and gave him a playful "Hello!" At first, he hid...
The Role of Rest in Career Development: Why Downregulation is Essential for Professional Growth
Understanding the vital connection between rest, regulation, and career success In our achievement-oriented professional culture, rest is often viewed as a luxury or a sign of reduced commitment...
Personal Power
PERSONAL POWERBy Jesse Donahue 2024 © Characterized by a lack of desire or an inability to focus... Here I go winging it, with no outline to follow. The development of this paper is a reflection...
Are You Living On Auto-Pilot? 5 Proven Ways to Get Back to the Lane of the Living
Hey, how are you doing today? Are you having a good day, or a not-so-good day? Have you stopped to take a break and take care of yourself? We live in a fast-paced world, where results appear more...
Shake It Off: TRE for Stress and Trauma Relief
Concerns about the impacts of stress and trauma on daily life are widespread. Unfortunately, people sometimes try one technique after another, hoping for relief but never attaining it. One...
My Book Journey: Making the Invisible Visible
This is my first—and quite possibly my last—book, which I see as my legacy project. This writing journey has been long and arduous, but persistence ultimately prevailed, and I finally reached the...
What Your Family Didn’t Say Still Got Passed Down
Trauma rarely stops with one generation. Epigenetics and family systems can pass stress and survival habits forward—and naming the pattern is how you break the cycle.
Returning to Work after A Mental Health Break: Tips and Strategies
Taking a mental health break is a courageous step towards self-care and personal well-being. As you prepare to return to work, it’s natural to feel a mix of emotions — excitement, nervousness,...
Are You Living in Fear? (Stuff We Don’t Talk About)
This post is darker than my normal posts, but I feel it’s time to address it. Fear. How are you doing today? I mean, really. Are you having a good day, or a not-so-great day? I’m deliberately not...
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”.
