When the Nervous System Doesn’t Get the Memo The holidays can be difficult for anyone. The memories, nostalgia, and grief can all sit heavy, but living with CPTSD adds another layer entirely. It’s not just the feelings that may pop up. it’s the nervous system. While everyone else seems to slip into cozy-mode, your body […]
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Healing, Boundaries, and Finding Yourself
Healing Reveals Where Your Energy Goes There’s something I’ve noticed while working on my own healing journey: the more work you put into healing, the less time and energy you have for people who haven’t done any of theirs. What I mean is this: as you heal, your tolerance for chaos, denial, and emotional immaturity […]
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When CPTSD Makes Emotions Overwhelming
The Strange Transition of Feeling It’s a strange transition to spend your life feeling everything but burying it because feeling it fully would hurt more than going numb. Then you heal and let yourself feel again, and suddenly you wonder if you feel too much. Because sometimes… it really feels that way. Learning to Regulate […]
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When Healing Hits Hard: CPTSD Truths
The Whiplash of Healing (And Why It Still Catches Me Off Guard) If you’ve read my blog for more than five minutes, you already know I’ve been on this healing ride for a long while. Long enough to have collected a whole scrapbook of “Oh wow, I finally get it” moments… and an equally thick […]
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Healing the Distance Between Me and My Mom
The Part of My Childhood That Still Hits the Hardest I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the relationship I had with my parents while I was growing up. And the part that’s always been the one that hits me the hardest is the one with my mom. Not because she did anything wrong, far […]
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How I Learned to Publish Without Shame
A Little Secret About Vulnerability For those of you who are regular readers of my blog, you might think I have no problems with posting what I do. That I might even make it look easy. I’m going to let you into a little secret. I do, and it’s not. It’s only recently that I […]