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Working in the Service Industry Saved My Life
TRIGGER WARNING: This post directly describes suicidal ideation and behaviors I almost killed myself at 13. I stayed home from school one day and told my mother I had a migraine. My plan was to...
Showing Yourself Acceptance and Compassion
Accepting oneself with all your flaws is part of being mentally healthy. However, often survivors are their own worst critics picking themselves apart and holding themselves back from...
How to Choose the Right Kind of Friends
all the things that make relationships possible are the very things that threaten our survival.
What is Trauma-Informed Yoga?
“No intervention that takes power away from the survivor can possibly foster her recovery, no matter how much it appears to be in her immediate best interest.” Judith Herman There may be a time...
Are You Hyper-Aware of Changing Moods?
Have you ever noticed that you are hyper-aware of other people's changing moods? This awareness could be a trauma response. It could be that you haven't always exactly known what you were...
How to be Trauma-Informed Given Today’s Important Issues?
One of the hard things we talked about in the last article, strategies for coping with the hard parts of life, was watching the news or dealing with current events. There is certainly a lot going...
Do You Compulsively Count or Perform Mathematical Operations in Your Head?
Trigger Warning: This can cause a trauma response. When I was little and helpless to escape my abusive environment, my brain formed a rather amazing coping strategy to distract me from the fear...
The Fear of Giving and Receiving Compassion
Many survivors of complex trauma have great trouble receiving compassion from others and have developed complex post-traumatic stress disorder. Somehow, it feels wrong and a trap to allow someone...
Am I a Victim or a Survivor?
Recovery groups, as well as any religious and spiritual groups, like to overuse the words "Victim" and "Survivor" and, it seems, that victims are childish, negative, and difficult adults and,...
A Price To Pay
It is estimated that at least one person with a disability is murdered by their caregiver, parent, or relative each week. 90% of women with disabilities are sexually assaulted, raped, or abused....
Disenfranchised Grief Within the Walls of Parental Alienation
“I will admit, in my darkest moments my hope for others is much clearer than my hope for myself.” Anna-Maija Lee For the purposes of understanding this post, please review the following terms as...
Projecting the Shadow Self is Surreptitiously Seeing Our Darkness in Others
The shady perfection of a phoenix-like transformation * This article contains behavioral descriptions that correspond, or are largely similar to, behaviors that have spawned from long-term...
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”.
