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: Fear
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...
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...
Borderline Personality Disorder: The Catch-all Diagnosis
This is the third post in a series addressing the misdiagnosis of Post Childhood Trauma Symptoms in Adulthood: According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) borderline personality disorder (BPD) cannot be diagnosed...
Vulnerability Can Heal Your Inner Child
If honesty is the best policy, why do so many of us who experienced childhood trauma (especially chronic childhood trauma) quake at the very thought of speaking our true feelings, needs and desires out...
The Monster Under the Bed
Despite a hypervigilant limbic system (the primitive part of our brain) which seems to take us to the verge of the abyss regularly, we have been told that those of us with post childhood...
