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To Guide Your Path – A Survivor Poem
Keep your head up, your spirits high. Keep learning new ways to fly. Choose your friends with care, Lest you stumble and not have them there. Don’t be swayed by the ways of the others you...
Some Final Thoughts on Family Estrangement
In this series, in December, we have examined together what family estrangement is, some of its causes, and how we can learn to enjoy our lives despite being separated from our family of origin....
The Positive Side of Family Estrangement and Creating a Family of Choice
This series on family estrangement may seem to be a strange topic to cover during the holiday season. Yet, being separated from family during Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s is a familiar...
The Commonality of and Coping with Family Estrangement
Family Estrangement is an emotional distancing and cessation of communication between one or more members of a family. It is the breakdown of the support from and to a person who can no longer...
The Diamond in My Heart- Poem by Jennifer “Kaylene” Carter
The Diamond in My Heart -Survivor Poem by Jennifer "Kaylene" Carter If I never accomplished another thing, Would you still love me? If I couldn’t live up to the image you see, Would you...
‘I Can’t Remember. But…’ Insight into a New Blog Series.
As a new and honored guest writer/blogger with the CPTSD Foundation I am going to start this journey with a series of six-week short articles linking thoughts, experiences, reflections, and...
Why Do Family Estrangements Happen?
Family estrangement is a very grief-ridden and personal experience that family members face when someone leaves or driven away from their family of origin. It occurs in families of all different...
A Glimmer of Hope.
A Glimmer of Hope, a Survivor Poem. (trigger warning) Those things, you know, they ripped apart my childish soul Greedily grabbed and pulled out its beating heart They chewed it up, spat it out...
Mental Health Disparities in the United States
Receiving appropriate mental health care is crucial to healing. However, an enormous number of American citizens cannot and do not receive the care they need because there simply are no providers...
For So Long…A Thank You, to the compassionate witnesses that caught me just in time.
For So Long...A Thank You, to the compassionate witnesses that caught me just in time. (trigger warning)thank you, t For so long, a tortuous lifetime no doubt, Trapped in a medieval...
Family Estrangement, What is It?
All families have their squabbles and days when one member might not speak to another. However, there is one type of painful situation where the communication between family members stops; this...
The Importance of Treating Ourselves Kindly.
Throughout my EMDR therapy journey, I've come to realize that all of our incarnations and former selves still live on within us, and the way that we treat/think/talk about them still affects...
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”.
