Discover effective trauma recovery strategies for CPTSD. Insights and tools to guide you through healing, resilience, and reclaiming your life.
CPTSD & Everyday Safety CPTSD isn’t just “a longer, worse PTSD.” It’s a deeper pattern of how the nervous system learns safety and danger from repeated trauma, especially trauma that happened in relationships, over time, or when you couldn’t escape. It can affect your emotions, your sense of self, how you connect with others, and […]
My Nervous System is a Red Flag (And I’m Done Apologizing For It) I’m going to throw this out there: Those of us living with CPTSD are walking red flags. Yes, that may hit hard. It might even make you want to close the page. However, let’s be real, living with CPTSD often means our […]
Healing Isn’t a Smooth Arc, It’s Chapters There is a definite before, during, and after period of healing. And each stage comes with its own learning curve. Some people mistake healing for one smooth arc, when in reality it’s chapters. The Before: Survival Mode Right at the beginning. Where you don’t have language yet, just […]
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 […]
When I Started This Site I gave a quick rundown on why I started this website on my About page. But now, almost two years later, with my readership growing, I can see how it’s become more than that. Not only did this site become the place where I stopped pretending I was fine, it’s […]
