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I Think She Died of a Broken Heart
Mom died in July 1960 at the age of 42 when I was 9 years old. My father remarried a year later. They said that it was a heart attack. Later in life, my oldest brother, Mike, and I would...
CPTSD in the Workplace: Emotional Safety
Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash One of the defining characteristics of CPTSD is severe and persistent problems in affect regulation. In my first article, I wrote, “Affect regulation,...
Healing Your Wounded “Inner Child”
A child that has suffered trauma and abuse in one form or other has had to adapt to the stressors and hurt. It doesn't matter if the abuse was emotional, physical, or sexual, that child has been...
Somatic Therapy and Finding Your Authentic Self
When I first heard the term “authentic self,” I rolled my eyes. But in the 17 months since getting diagnosed with CPTSD, I’ve learned how important it is to discover your authentic self. It never...
Why Relationships Are Important & Their Effect on Trauma Survivors
The most insidious thing about chronic childhood trauma is that it is often invisible
How Virtue Signaling Can be Traumatic to You
The news and social media are some of the major ways that people are informed of current events, crises, and the latest social phenomena influencing ideas in society. Currently, the news is...
CPTSD in the Workplace: Personal Safety
When we Google personal safety in the workplace, the results will be related to environmental issues related to safety, such as OSHA, etc. IGI Global defines personal safety as “a basic need to be free of physical harm, aggression, harassment, and victimization.”
For the trauma survivor in the workplace, the topic of personal safety is much more than that. For many of us, personal safety is a bit of a fairytale. We might not feel safe no matter what environment we are in. This article will explore the priority of safety, the biology of safety, and the role we play in managing threats to our personal safety.
What Are The Roles in Dysfunctional Family Systems?
Look at the absolute genius of my mother. It is a perfect example of covert abuse.
Forgiveness and Complex Trauma: My Journey
"When we shift the way we see ourselves towards the greater outcomes we’d like to create in our lives, what was once an impossible obstacle becomes a journey that changes us."
Female Sexual Predators of Children
****Trigger Warning**** The following article will discuss the sexual abuse of children by women. Viewer discretion is advised. For far too long, society has avoided discussing women who abuse...
The Night My Friend Died, My Childhood Died With Him
What is lost can be always found, as long as you keep searching.
Eudaimonia and Mental Health: Finding Your Purpose is Essential to Human Thriving
Organizations like the United Nations and additional related U.S. organizations have recently been focused on identifying factors that are negatively and positively impacting a person’s mental...
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”.
