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How to Cope With Eating Through the Holidays – Part 2 of 3
We continue our series with the wonderful Kristen Kancler in which she shares with us how we can be SAFE around food. --------- Navigating Trigger Situations Thanksgiving, the most notorious day...
Treating Complex PTSD (Parts 3 & 4)
PART III Addressing the Unique Features of CPTSD Any treatment for cPTSD must take these features into account. It needs to engage with the person holistically, and allow discussion of traumatic...
A Change of Scenery to Heal the Body and the Mind
***TRIGGER ALERT*** The content in the article describes child abuse and may be triggering for some readers. Child abuse and trauma survivors often feel misunderstood and marginalized in...
How to Cope with Eating Through The Holidays – Part 1 of 3
It's that time of year when we face a whirlwind of holidays: Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa --- oy!These holidays can demand a lot of our energy, time, and people points....
CPTSD & Compulsive Shopping Disorder During the Holiday Season
It’s that time of year when people around the United States overspend, trying to make their Christmas perfect. Folks run up their credit cards, wrap up their finds, and offer them as gifts....
Honoring Your Felt Sense of Inner Knowing
Trusting our healing intelligence is aligned with releasing the conditioning that clouds the inner quality of listening and truth-knowing. When the mind and body are in harmony, this can come as...
Trauma-Informed Talent Planning
Recently, I participated in a talent planning exercise with my Executive and peers at work, which turned out to be trauma-informed. I have never participated in or even read about trauma-informed...
Treating Complex PTSD (Parts 1 & 2)
PART ITreat it Differently The year was 2013, and the American Psychiatric Association was putting their final touches on their latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental...
A Candid Guide to Navigating the Holidays
The holiday season is often portrayed as a time of joy, warmth, and festivities. However, for many of us, especially those who have experienced complex trauma, this time of year can be a...
Self-Judgment & Mental Health
Taking time off when you need to be focusing on yourself Burn-out is at an all-time high. Employers continue to make cutbacks and what was once a workload shared among four or five people, is now...
Surviving Holiday Cheer
Every year, survivors face a world gone mad. Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's bring with them countless traditions, and people buy things they cannot afford as gifts. When you are a...
International Day of Persons with Disabilities
People have days for everything anymore. However, I am in a wheelchair and have been for over twenty years, so the one that is near and dear to my heart is the International Day of Persons with...
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”.
