Discover effective trauma recovery strategies for CPTSD. Insights and tools to guide you through healing, resilience, and reclaiming your life.
The Pull I Couldn’t Explain. I used to think healing from CPTSD was about finding answers in books. It turns out sometimes it’s about buying a plane ticket to Dublin because your body refuses to be ignored any longer. I’m finally moving out of the ‘in-between’ space, that strange, uncomfortable gap between who I had […]
It’s officially two years since I started this website and began writing and I wanted to take a moment to reflect on where I am now compared to where I started. Not because everything-is-fixed kind of way. More in the honest sense of looking back and seeing how much of life has quietly shifted underneath […]
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 […]
The Prosecution’s Case If you have CPTSD and you’re reading this, you probably know exactly what I’m talking about. That emotional black hole we fall into, the one that suddenly starts dragging up every bad thing we’ve ever done, every bad thing that’s ever been done to us, and every awkward interaction since 1997 and […]
The Expectation of Strength After “Doing the Work” There’s this quiet expectation that comes with healing. Once you’ve “done the work,” and you’ve survived the worst of it, when you can name your trauma and talk about it without completely falling apart… you’re supposed to be strong. Resilient. Grounded. And self-aware. The Pressure of Being […]
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 […]
