Tag: complex PTSD
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How ACEs Showed Up In My Life
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are traumatic events that occur before age 18, such as abuse, neglect, or household dysfunction. These experiences can have lasting effects on physical and mental health, and the ACE score is a simple way to measure how many types a person has faced. Higher scores are linked to increased risk for…
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Healing the Beliefs Trauma Leaves Behind
Rewriting the internal story that shaped your survival When we talk about trauma, we often focus on symptoms:Anxiety. Flashbacks. Emotional numbness.But beneath those symptoms live belief systems—quiet, persistent narratives that shape how we see ourselves, others, and the world. These beliefs often go unnamed.But they influence everything.And healing asks us to meet them with compassion,…
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Finding the Right Therapist
What I wish I’d known before everything broke open I’ve seen multiple therapists throughout my adult life.And for a long time, none of them felt like the right fit. Looking back, I realize I wasn’t searching for the right kind of help.I knew my childhood trauma was unresolved—but I didn’t understand the impact it had…
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Layered Trauma, Layered Healing
Understanding complex, chronic, and compounding trauma—and why recovery feels so hard Trauma is rarely a single event. For many of us, it’s a series of experiences that accumulate, interact, and intensify over time. It’s not just what happened—it’s how often, how early, and how deeply it shaped us. Terms like complex, chronic, and compounding trauma…
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Just Emotional? It’s Biological
How trauma reshapes the brain—and how healing rewires it For years, I thought my reactions were just emotional. I was “too intense” or “too much.” But neuroscience tells a different story. Trauma doesn’t just affect how we feel—it changes how our brains work. These changes aren’t inevitable, but they are measurable. And they matter. The…