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I’ve noticed something about living with CPTSD that I never expected. When something good happens, or we accomplish something we’re proud of, it isn’t always followed by a celebration. Instead, it can be followed by an emotional crash. It’s as though doing something positive comes with the expectation that the emotional bill is about to […]
I figured I’d share a few things I’ve been noticing about myself lately. This is a bit of a follow-on from my last post (you can read it here if you want: From Survival To Self: Becoming Who I Am) Perhaps you can relate and maybe it helps to remember that we’re all just trying to […]
Unfortunately, people still underestimate what childhood trauma can do to a person. Most don’t get it because they’ve never had to live through it. Trauma changes your brain. It changes how you move through the world, how safe you feel, and how you trust, react, connect, and survive. The problem is trauma usually doesn’t leave […]
The Pull I Couldn’t Explain. I used to think healing from CPTSD was about finding answers in books. It turns out sometimes it’s about buying a plane ticket to Dublin because your body refuses to be ignored any longer. I’m finally moving out of the ‘in-between’ space, that strange, uncomfortable gap between who I had […]
I’ve been asked a lot what actually helped me the most in my healing journey and what made the biggest difference in getting me to where I am now. My answer? Music. And I don’t mean in the cheesy “music heals” Pinterest quote kind of way. I mean genuinely. And deeply. In a way that […]
It’s officially two years since I started this website and began writing and I wanted to take a moment to reflect on where I am now compared to where I started. Not because everything-is-fixed kind of way. More in the honest sense of looking back and seeing how much of life has quietly shifted underneath […]
