What It Means To Nurture Yourself
Nurture: Care for and encourage the growth and development of, and: Protect; guard; keep from risk Provide for; look after Cherish Love Hold dear; to be fond of Treasure; regard as precious; value highly...
Overcoming Childhood Trauma as an Adult Blog
Crafting A Balanced Life
Balancing the hard and fast realities of our lives with the needs of our tender soul and the absolute necessity of de-exciting our hypervigilant nervous systems requires a sincere personal evaluation of our current stress-filled lifestyle and some exquisite lifetime, self-care planning.
The Trauma-Driven Choice To Be Obese
For millions of us the subconscious choice to be obese was a childhood trauma adaptation, implemented—unconsciously—as a way to feel safe in our body. We chose that self-protective method as a way to make...
Jagged Edges Singing
In this moving collection of poetry, we are drawn up through stygian darkness as it alchemizes into layers of increasing light. The poet’s long and convoluted path of heart and soul healing rings the...
Complex PTSD & the Monster Under the Bed
Despite a hypervigilant limbic system, which seems to take us to the verge of the abyss regularly, we were told, for many years, that those of us with post childhood trauma symptoms don’t fit...
When Love Hurts-Traumatic Bonding with a Pathological Partner
When love hurts it is possible that you are entangled with a pathological partner. A narcissist or sociopath or psychopath, all of which are masters of manipulation. They take you apart piece by tiny...
Saving Your Most Significant Relationship
The quality of the relationship you have with yourself is what determines the quality of your relationship with every other person in your life. ...
Cravings, Chemistry & Chronic Traumatic Stress—A Recipe for Addiction
Roller coasters are fun! First you slowly chug up, up, up and then whoooosh—down you fly at breakneck speed, screaming your fool head off. After about three to five minutes you are asked to...
WHAT ARE WE MISSING?
Haven’t you always known that, as a child, you deserved love, tenderness, attention and encouragement? We were beautiful, loving, trusting, innocent children that wanted nothing more than to be loved, cherished and significant to...
What Normal Isn’t
The feeling that was most pervasive for us as children, and the one that is most insidious to us as adults with post childhood trauma symptoms, is that we are somehow all ALONE. We...
Is Your Love Nest In Flames?
“I had gone to him as my inner child, with beggar bowl in hand—extended for his love, acceptance, my worth and significance. What I received was the exact opposite of what I had so...
