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Continued: Trauma and its Effect on the Brain: Beyond Fight, Flight and Freeze States…
My name’s Lizzy, and I’m a trauma survivor. I write to spread awareness of what it feels like to live after traumatic events and abuse. I know because I’m living this life. A life after enduring...
Looking Back: Mother’s Day Hurts
This post looks back at the recent US Holiday, "Mothers Day", and the challenges it creates for survivors of trauma with a mother wound. How are you feeling today? Do you have a complex relationship...
When Over-Explaining Is a Trauma Response
Over-explaining is often mistaken for dishonesty, guilt, or defensiveness. For many trauma survivors, it is a learned safety behavior formed in environments where being misunderstood carried real consequences.
Body Memory: How Trauma Rewires You—And How to Reclaim Your Physical Wellbeing
Do you smell different after trauma? We'll discuss the physiological changes one might experience, healing approaches, practitioners to find, tests to request, and scripts for medical conversations....
Why “I Can’t Talk About It”, is Rich Information
When a person dealing with trauma says to their therapist, “I can’t talk about it,” this is not a dead end. It’s not blocking therapy. Far from it. It is the beginning of the work; it shows exactly...
Feelings Aren’t Insects
Just when I thought I couldn’t feel any worse, my mom’s accusatory words cut into my soul like shrapnel. Her words embedded themselves in my heart and mind: "You don't know how to be happy.”...
Ruins as Echoes
Why I went looking for broken places, and what they gave back For most of my twenties and thirties, I lived a contradiction I tried to hide from everyone. On the outside, I seemed to have my life...
Trauma and Its Effect on the Brain
Have you ever been curious about why, and how trauma survivors react to events, and other situations differently from others? As a trauma survivor, I started questioning why I am the way I am in...
How can love feel like home?
I recently had the great joy of connecting with Robyn Vogel. She is the author of the book Come Back to Love: A Path to Healing and host of the syndicated radio show of the same name! She has spent...
“I Don’t Want to Be Alive Anymore” – Understanding the Loss of Will to Live After Abuse
Whether the narcissist is one person or a group, the pain of mistreatment can make you want to go to sleep and never wake up. Let's validate this dilemma, consider why it happens, and how to heal....
Understanding Trauma is not About the Past… It’s about YOU in the Present
“You cannot heal from trauma by understanding things intellectually." Gabor Mate, Ennea Summit 2026. I’ve been lucky to come across a free 90-minute Webinar with Dr. Gabor Mate, and have been...
The Rock and the Hard Place
I only found the "language" surrounding CPTSD very late in my life. Learning the reason for my decades of dysfunction and brokenness was my fiftieth birthday present from the universe--a genuine...
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”.
