Discover mindfulness techniques to support CPTSD healing. Learn simple ways to reduce stress, increase awareness, and cultivate calm daily.
For a long time, I believed that vulnerability was something to avoid. I thought it would leave me wide open to hurt and pain, and I wasn’t ready for that. But as I’ve worked on healing, I’ve come to realize something that I never fully understood before: vulnerability can actually be a source of empowerment. […]
A lot of what I will write about on this website is about healing and growth. After all, putting in the work to heal means that you will look at life a lot differently. You begin to appreciate the small moments and find strength in your vulnerability. I guess in the clinical world it is […]
I am someone who needs to understand things. I like to deep dive and learn. So, having trauma and cPTSD, it has always been mind-boggling to me why I would do certain things or act in certain ways without fully understanding as to why. Today, in therapy, I was confronted with some hard truths. I […]
On my healing journey, I discover new things every day. And when I learned I had Alexithymia, after the initial feeling of “great, another thing to contend with” because of my trauma, it actually helped me better understand what it was I was experiencing, how to better navigate emotions, and importantly, that I wasn’t an […]
This quote hits home every time I read it. Far too often we get so used to the struggle that we forget. Or for some of us, we are only starting to learn what it means to be happy and experience joy because our trauma happened at such a young age that it is all […]
I have reached a point in my healing where I am letting go of my old self. The person who has been with me throughout my many survival years. It’s a process that’s terrifying and a road of uncertainty. After all, who exactly am I if not the person I have always been? I’ve been […]
