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Rebuilding Your Nervous System After CPTSD: A Little-Known Solution
For years, I wrestled with the overwhelming effects of Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD), feeling like my body and mind…
10 Red Flags of a Narcissistic Dynamic: Trusting Your Body’s Early Warnings
Before we dive in, you might want to check out my previous article on fawning and how it can take…
Why do I struggle with boundaries: Trained to Abandon Yourself
When someone looks back across the years and sees the same pattern repeating — going along with things they didn’t…
Silence vs Non-Engagement: The Crucial Difference When Dealing With Teasing and Bullies
Most people who grew up in controlling or abusive households learned two responses to teasing, provocation, and bullying. Fight back…
The Red Flags of a Bad Therapist: How to Spot an Unsuitable Therapist Before It’s Too Late
Therapy is meant to be a place of healing, understanding, and growth. But what happens when the very person who…
The Core Wound: “I Was Robbed of a Normal Life”
There’s a deep, painful truth I’ve had to come to terms with: I was robbed of a normal life. While…
The Difference Between a Needy Child and an Unseen One
Sometimes the evidence has been there all along. Something shared casually, never looked at closely enough. A video of yourself…
Why Some Therapists Aren’t Trauma-Informed (And How I Realized It the Hard Way)
For months, I sat in a therapist’s office, hoping for change. Session after session, I talked. I explained my struggles.…
Am I Healing, or Am I Just Avoiding Life? — The Question That Haunts Trauma Recovery
At some point in serious trauma recovery, almost everyone arrives at a version of the same terrifying question: Am I…
What Happens When You Realize You Were Never Allowed to Matter
There’s a particular kind of realization that comes in trauma recovery that isn’t like other insights. It isn’t clean or…