Discover effective trauma recovery strategies for CPTSD. Insights and tools to guide you through healing, resilience, and reclaiming your life.
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, […]
The Strange Transition of Feeling It’s a strange transition to spend your life feeling everything but burying it because feeling it fully would hurt more than going numb. Then you heal and let yourself feel again, and suddenly you wonder if you feel too much. Because sometimes… it really feels that way. Learning to Regulate […]
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 Part of My Childhood That Still Hits the Hardest I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the relationship I had with my parents while I was growing up. And the part that’s always been the one that hits me the hardest is the one with my mom. Not because she did anything wrong, far […]
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 […]
