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: Your brain on trauma
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...
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...
