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The Long Term Health Impact of Domestic Violence
No matter how happy and content my life becomes, I will never forget the fear and loneliness of being kicked in the head, punched in the gut or dragged across a room by my hair. I Am a Survivor...
PTSD: The Cause for People to Harm Themselves Psychologically or Physically?
Even though one of the most revealing discoveries researchers in Complex PTSD have found is that emotional neglect can be as damaging as domestic violence, our advanced society should equip...
Rejection Trauma and Interpersonal Relationships
Rejection trauma results from growing up in homes where we were rejected and often considered worthless and a waste of our parent's time. Perhaps we were told we were worthless, or our parents...
Emotional Wounds Run Deep
Equality I am writing this piece to bring awareness to the equal severity that the impact of childhood emotional abuse has on an individual’s adulthood, to that of other types of abuse. Perhaps...
Memes Are Powerful & Problematic
"If everything is equal it isn't actually fair." Molly Burke Humor, joking, and laughter seem to be universally accepted as positive. What's often misunderstood is that this is only true when...
Rejection Trauma
Rejection is a normal part of human life as not every relationship is good for us and may end abruptly. We have all felt the sting of being fired from a job or parting from someone who didn’t...
Grief is Not All the Same
I've always had a hard time with grief. Been described way too emotional. Struck with an emotional intensity whenever I've experienced death close to me and when a person I know has experienced...
Hope For Survivors: I Wish For You …
"This moment of grace changed me. It didn’t take away the tumultuous road ahead, but it gave me a ground, a realization that I was more than the sum of the trauma I’d experienced."
You Deserve Love and Harmony No Matter Your Scars from Trauma
CDC research shows more than 60 percent of American adults have as children experienced at least one ACE (adverse childhood experience), and almost a quarter of adults have experienced 3 or more...
Equally Unequal: The Perfect Victim
This is not worth your time. It probably will not teach you anything you already didn’t know. The result? You will walk away feeling stupid. Maybe just maybe you will feel as if I have wasted...
Addressing CPTSD in Midlife
In 2021, at the age of 51, the acute effects of CPTSD started to tear me asunder. The mayhem wrought by a global pandemic certainly played a factor, but physically, perimenopause had been...
Overcoming Codependency
In this series of articles, we have examined codependency and various types of trauma. We've learned that living in a home where there is familial violence and neglect can spark in a child the...
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”.
