Explore how cultivating self-compassion supports healing from CPTSD. Practical tools and reflections to soften self-judgment and nurture inner peace.
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 […]
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 […]
Living Under the Dark Cloud Living with CPTSD can feel like carrying a dark cloud everywhere you go. It tags along into every room, every conversation, even the quiet moments when you just want some peace. And after a while, you start to think maybe that cloud is you. That it defines who you are, […]
We All Heal Differently We all have our own healing paths, and none are the same. Still, we can connect to each other because of the experiences we share, our trauma, the CPTSD, all of it. And you know, there really is something kind of beautiful in healing. To be stuck in a place that […]
Letting Go of What I Can’t Control There’s this thing I keep coming back to on this whole healing ride: letting go of what I can’t control. And listen, it’s not some zen, slow-motion, Instagram reel where I’m floating down a river all peaceful and wise. Nope. It’s usually me gripping on for dear life, […]
