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Finding Gold in the Cracks
Finding Gold in the Cracks (as published in the HeartBalm Healing Podcast at https://heartbalm.substack.com) Living in the contrast of life can feel daunting, overwhelming, and uncomfortable yet...
How to Increase Your Emotional Intelligence
All people always need to change their self-awareness to compensate for what they encounter in their lives regularly. One way to accomplish this is to raise your emotional intelligence. This...
The Flow Chart I Made That Helps Me When I’m Triggered
This article was originally published on The Mighty. I have a well-worn neural pathway in my brain. My mind sprints down this pathway when it notices my body is acting weird. I quickly go...
Off Label Patterns That Reveal Narcissism Part III of III
"You are a bad person if you respond poorly to me" When we search for a clinical explanation about the topic of narcissism we find very strong identifiers that we can zero in on. Identifiers like...
6 Ways to Calm Your Nervous System Right Now and Understand it
Do you always feel like you’re on high alert? Or do you just feel numb? Perhaps you bounce back and forth between the two? Have you wondered how to feel calm or peaceful? If you find the state of...
Establishing Safety in the Workplace
The workplace can be a re-traumatizing place for trauma survivors. Toxic work environments, unrealistic expectations, demanding bosses, multiple competing priorities, not to mention the...
The Burden of Truth
For trauma sufferers as well as survivors, the burden of truth is often a difficult pill to swallow. In a recent dilemma, I have been stretched and squeezed into a mode of discomfort when it...
Five Habits That Make CPTSD Symptoms Worse
As we struggle with the psychological and neurological effects of trauma in our lives, there are many things about CPTSD that we cannot control. So the things we can control have even more...
Applying Emotional Intelligence to Our Lives
People living with complex post-traumatic stress disorder are notorious for their emotional dysregulation. Emotional intelligence is critically important for controlling one's emotions and...
Gag Me With a Compliment
Why trauma survivors may not be able to receive compliments, praise, or kindness. The funniest thing came to mind when I was thinking about this topic. It was a memory from my childhood of going...
Trauma-Informed Yoga: Interoception (Our Felt Sense)
Many of us have a superpower survivor skill. We’re able to read the room, scope out the nearest exit, understand what the shuffling footstep means, and instantly react to that slight facial...
Emotional Wellness and Understanding the Effects of Conditioning
As I mentioned in the previous post, I had lived over a half-century, clueless in my own understanding of how emotions worked. In fact, I was absolutely unaware that I was clueless. My life...
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”.
