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How To Be an Effective and Healthy Father For Your Child When First Time Divorced
Remember no matter what you are the dad, and your child needs you the most even when at times, they don't show it. Be an adult and show up, every single day.
Trauma Can Turn The World Into A Gathering of Aliens
For ages, I have been labeled and subsequently felt: weird, alienated, not fitting in, different, special, highly sensitive, asocial, introverted, from another planet, and the list goes on. At...
Sports Violence is Real – The Result is Collective Trauma
Recently, a major incident took place after a college football game ended at the University of Michigan. Several Michigan State football players allegedly attacked players from the University of...
CPTSD in the Workplace: Unheard
What do you do when you feel unheard at work as a trauma survivor? No one likes being ignored, but for trauma survivors, not feeling heard can trigger a lot of past experiences and strong...
Why Are the Holidays so Difficult?
Why are the holidays so difficult for survivors of trauma? Because holidays bring up all of the helpless, paralyzing, vulnerable feelings of the family we have struggled with all our lives....
Treating Complex Relational Trauma
Complex relational trauma is the cause of complex post-traumatic stress disorder, a mental health issue that alters lives. Many people have experienced complex relational trauma but have no idea...
What Is the Best Way To Respond to Parental Alienation?
What can be more painful than experiencing your children rejecting you? Telling you they hate you. Saying they never want to see you again! Declaring they never had a loving relationship with you! Wishing you dead.
EMDR Adventures: Community Room and Internal Family Systems
“Breathe deeply.” I close my eyes and belly breathe as my EMDR therapist scoots her chair closer. This is standard practice in our weekly sessions. Soon she’ll tell me to open my eyes, focus on a...
Haunted: The Recurring Horrors of CPTSD
Survivors of abuse and neglect are constantly haunted by the ghosts of the past – triggered in broad daylight by the actions of others and the fallout of everyday events. Each day is a ride through a haunted house to some degree – never knowing what is around the next corner, or who will alert or startle us triggering old or new wounds.
CPTSD Coping Strategies: When Life is Tough
TRIGGER WARNING: This article contains childhood sexual abuse. Somebody once told me “when life gives you lemons, make lemonade”. Those people only experience hard times every so often. Maybe a...
7 Reasons People With Mental Illness Might ‘Disappear’
This article was originally published on The Mighty. If you’ve decided to read this writing, my guess is you likely have someone in your life who has a mental illness and who also disappears. You...
CPTSD Treatment Option: An Introduction to EMDR
There is much interest mentioned lately on our platform of people wanting to know more about Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). This piece is devoted to exploring EMDR and how...
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”.
