Childhood trauma can leave scars that linger well into adulthood and affect our relationships, our thoughts, our beliefs, and our...

C-PTSD (complex trauma) develops as a response to prolonged emotional, physical, sexual, mental, and/or verbal abuse or neglect is...

A quiet struggle persists within the U.S. military and has for decades: the battle against mental health challenges. With an increase in...

"Ghosting" someone is a term for abruptly ending a relationship without providing any explanation or follow-up communication. It's common...

Many people are familiar with the term Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and perhaps even have an image of what they think that looks...

We've known for a long time that childhood trauma impacts overall health, but within the last few decades, we've come to learn how...

In the last three posts, we explored how intergenerational trauma passes through 3 generations, how the four unconscious themes show up...

In the last two blog posts, we explored the science behind how intergenerational trauma passes through 3 generations. We learned about...

In last week's blog post, we explored the science behind how intergenerational trauma passes through 3 generations. We learned about the...

Neuroscientists, researchers, scientists, psychologists, therapists, and other professionals in the research field have know for a while...

CPTSD (complex post traumatic stress disorder) is caused by ongoing trauma, typically childhood trauma, that's caused insecure attachment...

In the previous blog post (Were You Raised in a Toxic Family? (The Signs)), we looked at specific behaviors that are common in toxic...

It's common for conflicts and arguments to exist in families; that's not a negative thing, it's a natural part of life. In fact, healthy...

When Mother's Day comes around, it's almost like we can sense it in the air: trees and flowers begin to blossom, grocery stores display...

Complex trauma generally shows up in the form of emotional flashbacks- these flashbacks typically present themselves as one of the 4 "F"...

In people who have complex post traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD), the inner and outer critic are typically very loud. We previously...

Before we dive into talking about the inner critic, if you need a refresher on CPTSD, you can click here. People who have CPTSD have a...

For the most part, we're able to control who we allow access into our lives. We get to choose our friends. But we don't get to the choose...

Physical and sexual abuse are two of the most common areas of abuse in childhood, and they are also the two most obvious traumas in...

Have you ever heard of the term "shadow self"? Our shadow self refers to the part of ourselves, or the part of our personality, that we...