Many complex trauma survivors are inherently highly sensitive people. We're wired to connect deeply, if we're gonna connect at all. Which makes it all the more painful & frustrating when triggers & dissociation make connecting hard in the first place. IYKYK.

If you have insulin resistance and are not using fasting as part of your strategy to improve metabolic health, you’re missing out on the most powerful and free tool to address your issues.

This is an 8th grade exam from 1912. No calculating how many watermelons Stacey can fit in her station wagon. It's all about things like interest payments and construction problems. Real-world stuff. Because 8th grade education was supposed to be adequate prep for real life.

Post traumatic depression is frequently fueled by survivors' reluctance to put things worth looking forward to on the calendar-- because trauma has convinced us anticipating good things is pointless & stupid. Planning fun things can feel risky when the future is unknowable.

I know I sound like a broken record, but fresh air, sunshine, animals, family, movement & love are wildly more important to mental & physical health than anything an expert, guru or influencer is going to sell you 🙏🤓

Reducing symptoms in a 12-week clinical trial is not the same thing as promoting healing and recovery over the long run. Symptom reduction can serve important roles, but healing and recovery should be the ultimate goal.

A lot of people talk about what they are going to do without ever following through. Watch the ones that DO.

Society: “an ADHD diagnosis after 30 is a waste.” Me: There is a kind of healing that can come with a deep knowing that your struggle is real. That you are believed and validated. That you are worthy enough to be seen for exactly who you are. Your. Brain. Is. Beautiful.

Trauma & addiction recovery involve so much grieving that it can make laughing-- especially deep, belly laughing-- feel weird or "wrong." Like, how can we laugh, when there's so much, you know...sh*t? Thing is: we really need to laugh-- ESPECIALLY in recovery.

The parentified daughter becoming the adult with an autoimmune disease is a missing link in health. A lifetime of carrying everyone else’s burdens will always show up in the body.

When I was young, I didn’t know I was autistic. I read all the time. I read on the way to school and at break times. I read all day. It was my way of escaping a world I found too difficult to process and cope with. Books were my way of putting up a barrier to cope with the world.

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Telling children who are mourning the loss of a parent that they have “prolonged grief disorder” because they are distraught at 7 months out, and TheScience™ cutoff is 6 months out — is abusive, unethical, sadistic

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