Explore the intersection of mental health and CPTSD. Understand symptoms, find resources, and access tools for lasting emotional well-being.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Accidental Comfort Movie Last night I got comfy in bed, full of the cold, armed with tissues, tea, and the kind of man flu that makes you question whether you should draft a will “just in case.” In my search for comfort, I landed on Frankenstein on Netflix. I’ve always loved the old black-and-white […]
Looking for the Pain Point: A Marketer’s Approach to Healing As someone who’s spent most of his life working in advertising and marketing, I’ve been trained to look for the “pain point.” What’s the thing underneath the thing? What’s actually driving the behavior, the resistance, the mess? CPTSD Healing Comes With Endless Pain Points And […]
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 […]
