Explore personal growth on the journey of CPTSD recovery. Tools, stories, and insights to help you evolve, heal, and thrive.
In therapy, I learned that healing can be lonely, a concept I didn’t fully grasp until recently. As I work on myself and navigate through emotions and confront my past, I realize that the journey often feels isolating, even when surrounded by supportive friends and family. It quickly becomes clear that healing is a deeply […]
Change is tough, especially when you’ve spent so much of your life in survival mode. But in order to heal, it’s crucial to address the wounds of your inner child. Having worked on processing my emotions more effectively, the next step for me was to actually start doing that, feeling and dealing with those emotions. […]
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 […]
I have been doing a lot of soul-searching lately. Looking at my life over the years and where I am today. I’ve really tried not to play victim or look at my life as if I was dealt a bad hand. I do, however, see what trauma has cost me, what it has done to […]
