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.
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
The whole idea of tackling one’s childhood trauma is incredibly daunting. Mostly because we think of it as one humongous, pulsing mass. For us, it is the monster under the bed. But truth be told, it’s just our inner child under there, shivering in the dark, wanting nothing more than to be loved, soothed and assured that they are significant, safe and—more than anything—WANTED.
The only way your inner child can ever receive those gifts is if YOU are willing to pull them gently from their hiding place and relent to intimate terms with them. Following is an excerpt from my book, under Little Monsters:
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...
