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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Awareness
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has become well-known among the public today. However, many do not understand that anyone can form PTSD and ignore the symptoms putting themselves at risk...
How Family of Origin Work Can Impact Future Generations
How family of origin work can impact future generations: A simplified understanding of epigenetics and multigenerational healing
Seek Help and You Are Half Way There!
My husband found me sobbing in a corner with a medication strip in my hand. It was a normal day until... There was some minor setback at the workplace, and my anxiety started controlling me. I...
We always have choices.
We always have choices, sometimes the choice to make a change or take on a quest or journey can be the scariest decision of all. But it is when we leave behind what is familiar that we make space to see with perspective where we were. While the journey itself can take on a life of its own the most important questions we always have to come back to, i.e. "What do I need?", "How do I feel?", "What is right for me?" contain answers that only lie within ourselves. In answering these, we take responsibility for our power and in doing so empower ourselves and heal.
Go within don't go without.
"Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
~Rilke
Autobiographical Chronicles: https://vocal.media/authors/jeff-spiteri
Changing the Future by Acknowledging the Past
No series on how positive childhood experiences (PCEs) can mitigate the effect of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) would be complete without speaking about the future. Not only the futures of...
Into the Breach
Into the Breach My brother Jimmy was like a navy seal. Intent on drawing any rage my parents might be brewing, he crept down the hall as I followed, carefully placing each tip-toed step in...
The Bridge Within: A Story of Self-Healing Part I
Part 1 - The Bridge Within The past 11 years of my life have been dedicated to resolving a mountain of childhood experiences that have had a stranglehold on the way I've experienced and shown up...
Soulful Empathy
My term ‘Soulful Empathy’ arises from ‘feeling and listening at a soul level’ It is like one traumatized nervous system, soma (body) starts speaking to another and you feel seen and heard...
A Trauma Anniversary
Where was I on this date six years ago? No matter how many times I have tried to blur out the dates of March 27th – March 30th in my mind, the little tiny reminders build and build until the...
Positive Childhood Experiences, Resiliency, and Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
One might think of negative childhood experiences as intimately linked with complex trauma and complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD), and you would be correct. CPTSD is caused by a...
Safety First: A Trauma-Informed Approach for Couples Who Want to End Abuse In Their Relationship
If you and your partner want to pursue couples therapy, that’s commendable! There is so much hope and help available in therapy. What if you’re dealing with intimate partner abuse or violence...
Control As a Trauma Response: Knowing You Were Powerless Helps You Heal
After living through abuse, neglect, or violence, it’s normal to promise yourself you will never let that happen again. That promise seems to make sense. You need to feel safe, to find some sense...
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”.
