by Cyndi Bennett | Jun 4, 2025 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Occupational Mental Health & CPTSD
Introduction As trauma survivors, we often face unique challenges in the workplace related to managing triggers and intense emotions. The number one request that I get from trauma survivors is to teach them how to manage their workplace triggers. Experiencing triggers...
by Jennifer DiOrio | Jun 2, 2025 | CPTSD, Guest Contributor, Healthy Relationships
“We are the cosmos made conscious, and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.” – Brian Cox, physics professor and musician Feelings of numbness, detachment, depletion, and pain can be mistaken for an inability to heal, grow, transform, and...
by Polly Hansen | May 29, 2025 | ACEs, CPTSD, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor, Healing from Toxic Shame
“It’s amazing you survived. How come you’re so…normal and happy?”That’s what people say when I tell my story: parental neglect, sexual abuse, homelessness, being trafficked. My answer? I never gave up on me. Why? Because I wanted me. I wanted to believe I was good,...
by Elizabeth Woods | May 28, 2025 | CPTSD, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor
Hey, how are you feeling today? Have you taken some time for yourself today? If you are a survivor of trauma and abuse, the answer is probably not. As survivors, the last person we think about is ourselves because we have spent years being suppressed into believing...
by Roseanne Reilly | May 27, 2025 | CPTSD, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor
Restoring Safety to the Nervous System For many of us living with stress-related trauma—whether acute, chronic, developmental, or complex—the hardest thing isn’t the memory. It’s the body’s ongoing reaction. Our nervous system holds onto the past...
by Cyndi Bennett | May 26, 2025 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Occupational Mental Health & CPTSD
Introduction As survivors of complex trauma, many of us face unique challenges in the workplace. One of the most significant obstacles we may encounter is the presence of limiting beliefs — deeply ingrained thoughts and assumptions that can hold us back from reaching...
