No two people are exactly the same and life is full of ups and downs. Thus, you’re going to inevitably be faced with external conflict at some point in your healing journey, and despite your best intentions to remain positive, sometimes this is very difficult to do. It’s human nature to allow negative emotions to […]
Hope and Fear: A Delicate Dance Between Healthy and Toxic Amid Abuse
Hope and fear can be both healthy and toxic, depending on what provokes them. In order to delve deeper in all the reasons why both reside within trauma and why one must come to know the reasons for this in order to escape, we have to first do a little dissecting.
Putting a Name to Shame Rather Than Suppressing It
Shame is a hard emotion to carry and one in which no one wants to feel. Often, when it creeps to the surface, we have to make amends with others and do some extensive internal work to rid our energy field of negativity. But it is important to remember that we’re all human, we all […]
Helping Others: Know When to Walk Away, Know When to Run
It’s important to remember that your own well-being needs to come first, period. While helping others can be a key component of your healing journey, if this becomes too overwhelming, it’s time to scale back a bit. You are also likely to encounter situations in which you simply cannot save the person you’ve been determined […]
Breaking the Stigma by Learning Acceptance
Oftentimes after being diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, we have mixed feelings. This is because while it feels good to understand where many of the uncomfortable symptoms are coming from and why they’re there, now that we have this understanding, we may feel somehow separated from the rest of society. We feel as if we’ve […]
Popular Phrases of Predators: Healing from Abuse-Induced PTSD
Abuse doesn’t have to be physical. In fact, the emotional scars often outlast those inflicted on the body. Abusers also tend to either start the cycle with words, then things get physical, or they do both simultaneously. Rarely does one exist without the other. Those who have shared an intimate space with an abuser who uses […]