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For most of my life, I thought my body was betraying me. The racing heart. The shaking hands. The hollow, floating feeling that showed up at the worst possible moments, like I was a ghost watching myself try to function. I’d tell myself, “Calm down. You’re fine.” But my body clearly hadn’t gotten the memo. […]
Learning to Be Alone (and Actually Liking It) As I get older, I’ve noticed something I didn’t expect. It’s not that I want or need people around me all the time. I’ve learned to enjoy my own company; I actually find a kind of calm in that. The fact I am introverted plays a large […]
The Silence That Follows Trauma One thing I learned early in my own healing is that talking openly about it has the ability to suck the life out of the room. You mention your trauma, and suddenly everything goes quiet, like someone hit the emotional “mute” button. Then, when you try to lighten the mood […]
The Parts of You That Got Tucked Away It’s a strange concept, giving the parts of yourself a chance to speak after so long of being silenced. Trauma, fear, or just habit teaches you to tuck pieces of yourself away: the scared kid, the angry teen, and the goofy, messy adult. “Stay quiet,” they’re told, […]
Living Under the Dark Cloud Living with CPTSD can feel like carrying a dark cloud everywhere you go. It tags along into every room, every conversation, even the quiet moments when you just want some peace. And after a while, you start to think maybe that cloud is you. That it defines who you are, […]
The Narrator in Your Own Meltdown Do you ever catch yourself mid-meltdown, calmly narrating your own emotional chaos like a nature documentary? “Here we observe the adult survivor in his natural habitat, spiraling over the way a text message is worded…” That’s the kind of self-awareness I’m talking about, the kind that sounds evolved but […]
