Tag: C-PTSD

YOur work is not to change who you are. You are not too much.

What Emotional Neglect Looks Like in Real Time

December 26, 2021 No Comments

In the past month: My boys’ father met a woman, requiring him to stay out late on school nights—past 10 and even 11—leaving the boys

NANEA HOFFMAN SWEATPANTS & COFFEE QUOTE: YOUR EXPERIENCES DO NOT NEED OT BE VALIDATED BY OTHER PEOPLE FOR THEM TO BE REAL AND TRUE.

Good Input

December 16, 2021 No Comments

How have I provided good input for my children? Who, in my child’s life, is a reliable source of good input—consistently kind, considerate, trustworthy, loyal,

Healing After a Lifetime of Invalidation

August 7, 2021 No Comments

Thoughtful Cruelty I obssess reflect often on how my reactions to trauma—my insecurity, shame, and depression—were treated harshly by the very people I depended on.

If standing up for yourself burns a bridge, fuck that bridge Jilan Catherine Ghoneim Whitney

Raising Boys Amid Trauma, Silence, and Emotional Games

July 17, 2021 No Comments

Artificial Indifference Artificial Indifference. Finally—a name for the thing that was sought, feigned, and revered in my family, and later in an equally dysfunctional marriage.