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My Mother Died Today
The years of hard work I did toward healing came rushing in to lift me up. There was no regret, no guilt and no shame, only relief.
The Link Between Cognitive Deficits and Childhood Emotional Abuse
In this article, I am going to talk about the link between emotional abuse in childhood and cognitive deficits that last into adulthood. I will also talk a bit about how these deficits occur...
Incest and Genetic Disorders
Trigger Warning The following piece deals with incest and is not suitable for all readers. So far in this series on incest, we have covered how society looks at incest and how it is unacceptable,...
The Ups and Downs of No Contact
It’s been a tough week for me. I found out about my brother’s illness and the surgery to remove a kidney from a third party on social media, and then my favorite chicken, my pet, died. I was...
A Braver Brave Face
Last January 2021, I was diagnosed with CPTSD--a month after I experienced my first CPTSD episode caused by my parents a week before Christmas. Since then, my life has never been the same. It did...
An Essay on Attachment
Attachment Styles and How they Can Affect Our Adult Life All throughout my life till the time I was diagnosed with PTSD, I never realized that the emotions and feelings I associated myself with...
Intentional Community, Social Support, and Healing from Trauma
Healing after complex trauma is not linear. It is not a smooth path with clear milestones every so often to let you know you are making progress. Healing after complex trauma looks different for...
Trauma Bonding and Incest
Trigger Warning The following piece deals with incest and is not suitable for all readers....
6 Signs of Trauma after COVID and Finding Your Path to Healing
As we approach two long years of experiencing the global trauma of COVID, we are hoping things are winding down to allow for more manageable challenges. Yet many are experiencing symptoms...
Managing CPTSD Symptoms in the Workplace – Part 2
In the previous article in this series, we reviewed the World Health Organization’s (WHO) definition of CPTSD, explored the CPTSD-specific symptoms, and how those symptoms show up in the...
Trauma and Behaviorism – The Story Is Worth Telling!
When I am reflecting on the field of mental health, I often arrive at a point in my reflection where I ask the question, “How did we arrive at this point in time-related to mental health”? My...
Incest the Taboo Subject
Trigger Warning The following piece deals with incest and is not suitable for all readers. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ There is...
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”.
