Discover therapeutic approaches and healing practices for CPTSD. Insights and tools to support your journey toward emotional recovery and resilience.
I’ve been asked a lot what actually helped me the most in my healing journey and what made the biggest difference in getting me to where I am now. My answer? Music. And I don’t mean in the cheesy “music heals” Pinterest quote kind of way. I mean genuinely. And deeply. In a way that […]
There’s a symptom of CPTSD that I don’t think people talk about enough. And that’s the emotional whiplash of being completely overwhelmed one minute and then absolutely nothing the next. Like your nervous system just slams the emergency brake. And let me tell you, this is a symptom that I still have regularly, even after years […]
When Healing Turns Trendy: The Complicated Reality of Inner Child Work With everything being marketed today, trauma, and all its little tid-bits, has become a playground for self-help gurus. Everywhere you look, attachment theory is being thrown around in relationships like a catchy meme, distilled down to little personality labels or quick-fix advice. I touched […]
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 […]
The Promise I Made at the Beginning When I started this website almost two years ago, I made a promise to myself: to be as vulnerable as I could. To be honest about my healing, not because I have it figured out, but because I don’t. Because I wanted others to see that this work […]
Realizing My Memory Gaps There’s something that’s really stood out to me as I’ve reached this point in my healing journey: how bad my memory actually is. I didn’t fully realize it at first. It only became obvious when other people started pointing it out. The missed details. Forgotten conversations. Moments where I nodded along, […]
