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...
Category: Cause & Effects of Chronic Childhood Trauma
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 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...
Are You Lost and Confused When it Comes to Personal Boundaries?
Do you know the eleven commonalities typically shared by adults who have experienced childhood trauma? Due to suppressing your traumatized inner child and its reactions, you may not have even identified these issues as...
Why Is Your Life a Mystery?
Life is a mystery. It always has been. It always will be. That’s why we need to learn to listen to our intuition, which is just another way of saying our ‘knowing without knowing...
Chasing the Rescue Fantasy
As childhood trauma survivors, our formative years were spent in an unstable and unpredictable environment where we adopted a multitude of self-preservation techniques in order to survive. But those same techniques keep steering us...
Was There a Crazymaker in Your Childhood?
As a survivor of chronic childhood trauma you grew up justifying the behavior of the crazymakers in your home — to yourself — in order to cope mentally and emotionally. That ongoing survival technique...
