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May 9, 2020 Complex Trauma / Grief / parenting / toxic people

It’s Mothers Day, and All I Want is to Grieve

I dread Mothers Day, and the weeks leading up to it. Around the first of May, it begins. That uncomfortable

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September 26, 2018 Complex Trauma / Resources for Survivors

Why Didn’t I Report? Thank You For Asking…

The first time it happened that I can remember, I was three years old. Three. That alone ought to be

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September 10, 2018 Complex Trauma / Resources for Survivors

The Three Words Childhood Trauma Survivors Need To Hear

Childhood trauma is a uniquely confusing experience. For many of us, the very people whom we were required to rely

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Ten Tools for Trauma Survivors

A couple years ago, I hit a serious wall.  I was emotionally and physically exhausted, but didn’t understand why. Sure,

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July 11, 2018 Complex Trauma

Who Am I, and What Do I Want?

Healing from narcissistic and emotional abuse is a lifelong unraveling. One has to scrape through many layers of gunk made

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July 9, 2018 Narcissism

The Difference Between a ‘Normal’ Parent and a Narcissistic Parent

Those who have survived abusive childhoods at some time or another have run into someone (or many people) making banal

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July 5, 2018 Complex Trauma / Resources for Survivors

When Survivors Dare To Believe They Are Worthy of More

Healing can be a long process, especially from complex trauma. There is an entire lifetime of coping mechanisms that survivors

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July 2, 2018 Complex Trauma

When Fireworks Set You Off

I am one of many who struggle with the loud pops and bangs of the Fourth of July. I am

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July 1, 2018 Narcissism

Gaslighting Creates A Longing To Be Understood

When I was a child, I had no tools or language to understand the abuse that was happening to me.

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June 26, 2018 Complex Trauma

When The Creepiest Stalkers Are The People Who Raised You

  When I was thirteen, my father burst into my room while I was doing my homework, and demanded that

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