Must reads to recognize & heal complex ptsd
How to know your relationship struggles come from childhood
Relationship struggles can leave you feeling confused, baffled, and lonely. You wonder why the same patterns keep repeating or if there’s something wrong with you.
How to know if you struggle with codependency
One of the tragic outcomes of growing up in a dysfunctional family is codependency. That means the way others view you dictates the way you feel about yourself.
How to understand devastating relationship patterns
Do you repeat relationship patterns? Even when you tell yourself you’ll never make the same mistake? That’s because you still have something to learn from that pattern.
How to overcome fear of rejection
The fear that prevents you from asking for what you want is the chance you might experience rejection. You avoid asking which ensures you never get what you want.
How to surrender vs. giving up
If you’re recovering from past trauma, advice to let things go has been dismissive and ill-intentioned. Surrender instead means you accept things you cannot change.
How to receive when you’ve been taught to overgive
They say it feels better to give than to receive, but is that really true? What if you feel resentful about giving; does that make you a bad person?
How to comfort yourself when you’re scared
Have you experienced fear in your body when you had to give a speech or presentation? Did you comfort yourself or try to talk yourself out of your feelings?
How to understand addiction as a coping mechanism
You may have been punished for your wants and needs, or for having emotions. Enter an addiction to give you a release valve from all this self-oppression.
Why it’s important to focus on what you want
Many of us tend to focus on what could go wrong in a given situation and that makes sense when you have a history of things being taken away from you.
How to understand why criticism makes you fall apart
If you grew up without praise or encouragement, you will feel overly sensitive to criticism. You equate criticism with rejection that feels life-threatening.
How to make decisions from your highest self
If you’ve had a traumatic past, you find it difficult to make decisions. Instead of a calm, centered place, your choices are made from a sense of urgency.
How to understand your need for certainty
Everyone has a need for certainty. For the childhood trauma survivor it feels like life or death because it developed as a response to feeling abandoned.
3 devastating ways childhood trauma impacts us as adults
It’s Not Your Fault: The Subconscious Reasons We Self-Sabotage and How to Stop guides readers to explore the ways childhood trauma impacts their lives.
How to stop feeling alone and lonely
One outcome of growing up in a home with abuse or neglect is feeling alone in the world. If nobody had your back, you became self-sufficient to protect yourself.
Let’s talk about love
When the people who were supposed to love you didn’t, you feel like love is scarce, hard to get, and confusing.
But love is the most natural thing in the world.
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