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Choosing Love Over Fear
” When we look at the world from the eyes of love we become its student. Every situation is an opportunity to learn, every situation is an opportunity to choose ourselves and choose wholeness.”
Four Ways to Really Take Care of Yourself in The New Year
As the world starts a new year, we start a new day — and every day is an opportunity for growth and change. Every day is a good day to take care of ourselves. You don’t have to start on January...
Enhancing a Man’s Self-Esteem to Prevent Suicide
Suicide has become prevalent in the United States, with men dying nearly twice as often as women. One of the greatest causes of suicide among men is society's damage to their self-esteem. This...
Trauma and its Effect on the Brain
Have you ever been curious about why and how you react to events and other things that are different from your friends? As a CPTSD survivor, I started questioning why I am the way I am in certain...
Life Management Skills For Trauma Survivors
That breathless careening dash through life is a direct result of trauma laid down in the early years of childhood.
Understanding Dissociation: A Journey Of Discovering Us
What is dissociation? Apparently, it’s when you have the urge to say something, have a thought, or experience a feeling followed by the overwhelming sense that you don’t dare say, think, feel it, or...
Mom and the Easter Miracle
I was neither pious nor devoted: I just liked the sound of something that would protect me from the chaos that surrounded me every day.
Male Suicide and How You Can Help
**Trigger Warning** This article will be tough to read and may trigger some people. Caution is advised. Suicide is tricky to write about because it brings up so many negative connotations. Writing...
How Making Videos About Complex Trauma Helps Me
This blog originally appeared: at YouTube: If someone had told me just one year ago that I’d be running a YouTube channel with videos of me giving talks and reciting my own poetry in twelve months'...
Intersectionality and its Manifestation
The Oxford Dictionary defines intersectionality as “the interconnected nature of social categorisations such as race, class, and gender, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems...
New Year – Time to Re-energize and Revitalize the Soul!
As we wave goodbye to 2022 some of us are filled with nostalgia looking back on a year full of happiness and challenges. I don’t think anyone can achieve true happiness every single day but hey…...
Finding My Inner Anchor
“Many times when our lives are shaken by mental health its an indication that something is not working; but where so often we might find stability in our habits, routines, environment and the people we surround ourselves with we
often fail to give credit to or see the importance of finding our own inner anchor.”
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”.
