You are exhausted. You've been exhausted all day. And then the moment you finally lie down, your body decides it's time to keep watch. If that's familiar, please hear this first: you are not bad at sleeping, and this is not a failure of willpower. Your nervous system learned to stay alert for very good reasons. Let me explain what I mean. I'm …
Research on Healing Trauma
You Don’t Have an Anger Problem: What Your ‘Temper’ Really Says About Your Nervous System
For the full picture of why CPTSD anger feels so big, and what helps, read CPTSD Anger and Rage: Why It Feels So Big, and How to Heal It. Marcus stood in his kitchen, staring at the dishwasher. It was full of clean dishes that hadn't been put away. On any other day, this might have been a minor annoyance, but today, it felt like a personal …
Your Body Isn’t Broken: How Stanford Research Explains Your Trauma Recovery Journey
If you are living with the long-term effects of childhood trauma, you’ve likely had days where you felt like your body was an unreliable narrator, or worse, an enemy. Maybe it’s a migraine that hits every time you try to set a boundary. Maybe it’s a digestive system that seems to react to everything, or a "brain fog" so thick you feel like …
