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CPTSD and Family: Glorious, Painful, Isolation
***Trigger Warning - This article speaks about domestic violence*** The relationships between those with CPTSD and family are usually difficult. Typically the problems fall beyond the usual ‘you...
Dissociation – What is It?
With the topic of trauma becoming more influential in the public arena, the narrative that surrounds this topic can become confusing. A related idea to trauma that may be unclear to many is...
How to Be a Friend
Trauma creates extremes. Either we are enmeshed with another person, constantly driven to people pleasing and conflict avoidance or we become dominators ourselves and cancel out others to feed our own needs.
Enough with the Abuse and the Control of Women and Children
The outrage following the overturn of ROE V WADE was felt and expressed all over the world. I've watched "Stay Sweet - Pray - Obey" on Netflix recently. It is about a small community of a branch of...
Trauma-informed Yoga: Present Moment Choice Making
When facilitating trauma-informed yoga, a fundamental component of our time together will be the exploration of present moment choice making. What is Present Moment Choice Making? Life is lived in...
The Difference Between ‘Top-Down’ and ‘Bottom-Up’ Therapy, and Why It Matters
This article was originally published on The Mighty. A few years ago, I was invited to attend a new support group for people diagnosed with complex trauma. I was (unsurprisingly) anxious about...
Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and the Americans with Disabilities Act
Millions of people are affected by disabilities every day. When people think of a disability, they often think of people in wheelchairs or who are blind. However, many disabilities cannot be seen....
How to Keep a Friend – Managing Conflict
Conflict is an inevitable part of life. Trauma is not. You can have conflict without creating trauma.
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Where Angels Fear to Tread! (as published in The Friday Edition of HeartBalm Healing at https://heartbalm.substack.com) We all have our stories, our wounds, and how we began, were molded, survived,...
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 experiencing...
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 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”.
