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6 Ways to Let Go of Resentment
Working with clients over the years and in personal situations, I’ve noticed that many people appear to have clean and tidy homes. It’s a different story if you open the cupboards and closets. Then there is the good, old junk room! To me, this is a mirror...
It’s Beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
It is Christmas Eve, and Christians worldwide are celebrating one of the most important holidays of the year - the birth of Christ. It is a season to be jolly and happy. A time to celebrate with family and friends. It is a time for everyone, no matter what their...
Unwind Your Worries: Mastering Progressive Muscle Relaxation for Anxiety and Panic Relief
When I first started my healing journey, I was wound tighter than a 10-day clock…if you know what I mean. My muscles were tight, tight, tight, causing constant headaches. Our bodies tense and tighten to protect us. This makes sense when you consider that the...
CPTSD and Long-Term Personality Changes: Navigating Trust and Transformation
Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD) arises from prolonged exposure to trauma, often in situations where escape feels impossible. Unlike PTSD, which is generally linked to a single traumatic event, CPTSD develops over time in contexts like childhood...
When Mothers Hate Their Daughters
***TRIGGER WARNING - The following article discusses childhood abuse. I always knew I wasn’t wanted. From as far back as I can remember, my mother told me that she had gotten pregnant with me a month after my brother was born and how she felt about that. “Morrene,...
Emotional Overwhelm
“Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm; when we look at each other, we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each...
Numbing Out For the Holidays
***TRIGGER WARNING - The following article discusses suicidal ideation and could be triggering. *** I opened the top of my prescription bottle and looked inside. There were only three little, round pills left. Xanax was more valuable to me than gold. I was seeing a...
Looking Beyond Silence: Ways To Support A Teenager Who Speaks Out About Abuse
The term “watershed moment” seems to be shorthand in news articles reporting on notable abuse allegations that survivors advance instead of the abusers. If a young person speaks up, they meet countless opinions they probably could not fathom. Their “watershed...
Here Come the Holidays
~Stepping Out of the Hopelessness Wait a minute, weren’t Thanksgiving and Christmas just last week? Here they come again. Celebration doesn’t mix well with trauma. Everyone talks about the busyness of the season as a source of stress, but for survivors of childhood...
From Maiden to Crone and the Long Road to Hope
***TRIGGER WARNING: The following article discusses childhood trauma and could be triggering.*** I found the photo not long after being diagnosed with CPSTD. Little broken me looking into the camera with a depth of pain and sorrow that no child should have to bear....
How Covert Narcissists Use ‘Flying Monkeys’ to Create Trauma and CPTSD – A Guide to Finding Support
One of the most painful tactics in covert narcissism is turning family members against you. This manipulative strategy, designed to isolate and control, often pulls loved ones into the narcissist’s web to unknowingly serve as “flying monkeys”—trusted people who,...
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”.
