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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 […]
Circling Back I know I’ve touched on this theme a few times lately, but I keep circling back to it because this is genuinely where I am in my own journey right now. And the more I can write about it and get my thoughts down, the more I can understand the version of myself […]
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 […]
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 […]
There comes a point in CPTSD healing where you realize this has a shape to it. A beginning. A long, messy middle. And then, not an ending exactly, but a different way of living with yourself. And the longer you do this work, the more obvious it becomes that healing is not a straight line […]
Can CPTSD Be Cured? There’s a common question I get when talking about living with CPTSD: can you be cured? First, I always want to be clear about something in my replies. I’m not a therapist, and I don’t have any clinical training. I make sure people know that when they reach out. What I […]
