I’ve been a pretty closed person all my life, hesitant to share my thoughts and feelings with others. However, recently, I’ve started to realize the importance of opening up and forming deeper connections with those around me and I have written in an earlier blog post about how there is empowerment in vulnerability. It’s funny […]
Healing Is A lonely Process
In therapy, I learned that healing can be lonely, a concept I didn’t fully grasp until recently. As I work on myself and navigate through emotions and confront my past, I realize that the journey often feels isolating, even when surrounded by supportive friends and family. It quickly becomes clear that healing is a deeply […]
Working On Healing My Inner Child
Change is difficult. Especially when you have spent much of your life in survival mode. But in order to heal, you have to work on healing your wounded inner child. Because I have done the work on being able to process emotions better, the next step for me was to work on doing exactly that. […]
The Multi Layers Of Grief
There is one thing that I was never prepared for in my healing, and that is the amount of grief we go through. It seems that once I have reached a certain point in my trauma recovery, the progress I have made comes with various amounts of it. And I’m not talking about the grief […]
There Is Empowerment In Vulnerability
I never really understood the concept of finding empowerment in vulnerability until I really started working on healing. For so long I believed being vulnerable would open me up to a world of hurt, and I wasn’t prepared for it. However, as I began to embrace my vulnerabilities, I discovered that they allowed me to […]
What I’ve Learned As A Parent With CPTSD
Being a father to a teenage girl brings its challenges at the best of times but being that parent who also has cPTSD adds to those challenges. Navigating parenthood and all the emotions that followed can feel overwhelming. I have strived to support her while managing my own triggers and anxieties, and I have found […]