complex trauma

I Need A Distraction From My Thoughts & Work Isn’t Doing It

After almost five years of not working, can you believe I am being driven to boredom by this job. I sit here waiting for the phone to ring. When the boss comes out of his office I try to look busy. I try to look like I wasn’t just looking at social media, or playing […]

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Narcissistic Employers Can Derail Your Career

People only bring up your past when they are threatened by your present.  When I moved back to my hometown it was something I had wanted from the moment I moved away. I couldn’t wait to move back and get a job teaching in my hometown.  Prior to the interview I noticed that the human

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Repressed Memories of Possible Child Sexual Abuse

*Potential Trigger* What are Repressed Memories? When we are very young children an event such as sexual abuse can be so traumatic to us that we will bury all memory of the abuse ever happening. It never stays buried though. These memories will lay dormant until a time that our brains feel we are in

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Partial Memory of Child Sexual Abuse

*Potential Trigger* I have a partial memory, which I dismissed from my mind the first few times I had it.  In this memory, I am small and wearing a nightgown. That’s what us girls wore to bed to sleep in when we were little. It is like a long sleeved flannel dress.  In this memory

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Growing Up With A Narcissistic Sibling

The memories I have of my early childhood are very few and far between. All I have are my gut feelings. I’ve learned to trust those. You may call it your instincts or your intuition, but it’s all the same. I was alway afraid of my 2nd eldest sister. She was 8 when I was

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