Take the QUIZ: Has Childhood PTSD Affected Your Romantic Relationships?
Early abuse, neglect and other traumas can create distinctive, negative patterns in adulthood, especially around dating and relationships. The video below describes my new quiz, identifying some of the common [...]
The Crappy Childhood Fairy on ONE BROKEN MOM Podcast!
The other day I was the guest on Amee Quiriconi's podcast ONE BROKEN MOM, which is focused on parenting, kids and the effects of trauma on how we manage it [...]
CPTSD and Emotional Flashbacks
Most people are familiar with PTSD flashbacks -- the kind we associate with combat veterans who are haunted by a war memory. With Chronic PTSD (CPTSD), we may have "emotional [...]
CPTSD and CLINGING: Try To Let Things COME TO YOU.
Childhood PTSD has often left us unconsciously anxious, and one sign is that we tend to grasp at things we do want, and cling despite the fact that these people, [...]
DESTRUCTIVE PEOPLE: Does CPTSD Make It Hard for You to Spot Them?
Detecting who is safe and supportive -- and who is NOT -- is a level of discernment that can be damaged by past abuse, neglect and trauma. In this video [...]
TOUGH LOVE Truths For Healing CPTSD
For people with Childhood PTSD and CPTSD, there are a lot of treatments out there. Sometimes no matter what we do or how hard we try, we can hit wall. [...]
This is How It FEELS When Your Brain is Dysregulated from CPTSD
Everyone's brain and emotions get dysregulated sometimes, and almost everyone is able to eventually re-regulate. But if you grew up with abuse, neglect or other trauma during childhood, you may [...]
What’s the REAL Cause of Depression?
If conventional assumptions about (and treatments for) depression were meaningful, we'd be seeing less of it -- not more of it -- these days. The incidence of depression is increased [...]
Subscribers Ask: What if Daily Practice Writing Technique Makes Feelings Worse?
Thousands of you have now tried my Daily Practice for healing brain/emotional dysregulation and other symptoms of Childhood PTSD (or Complex CPTSD). Occasionally people tell me that the technique, which [...]
