Do you ever find yourself stuck in endless loops about your ex?  As you are falling asleep, you are replaying conversations. While you are going for a run, you are replaying conversations. Any moment of downtime, there you are replaying conversations and wondering what you could have done differently, or feeling like a ghost of […]

Always Feeling Unseen in Your Relationship? The Truth About CPTSD Do you ever feel invisible in your relationship, like no matter how hard you try, your partner just does not truly see you? This invisibility is confusing, painful, and leaves you questioning your worth. If you live with CPTSD, this is not your imagination and […]

If you looked at your achievements on paper, no one would guess the truth. But inside your head, or behind closed doors,  it is a very different story. If you are the human who achieves to survive, this episode is for you. Overachieving is not ambition gone too far. It is a trauma response. It […]

Why You Lose Control in Conflict Do you ever find yourself in the middle of conflict, suddenly hijacked by intense reactivity, saying things you do not mean, shutting down completely, or feeling like you are watching yourself from the outside? If you live with CPTSD, this is not a failure of willpower. It is what […]

Why Unworthiness Keeps You Stuck in CPTSD Do you feel like no matter how much progress you make, something always pulls you back into old CPTSD cycles? At the heart of this pattern is often the unworthiness wound, the deeply ingrained belief that you are not enough. This wound drives the “above and beyond” survival […]

Why You’re Successful But Heartbroken: CPTSD & Love Ever wonder why you can thrive in your career but keep repeating painful cycles in love? This is the hidden truth of CPTSD: the same trauma energies that drive your success at work can undermine your ability to feel secure in relationships. You can achieve so much, […]

Do you want to heal but feel like you just cannot let people in, not even your therapist, not even the people closest to you? If you live with CPTSD, this makes perfect sense. Protective walls and fear of vulnerability are natural outcomes of surviving without secure attachment. They keep you safe, but they can […]

Saying Yes When You Want to Say No? Understanding People-Pleasing and CPTSD Do you say “yes” when your whole body wants to say “no”? Do you constantly feel like your worth depends on keeping the peace? That is not weakness. That is CPTSD. In this episode, I explain why standard boundary-setting advice does not work […]

Always Afraid They’ll Leave? Understanding Attachment Anxiety in CPTSD If you are navigating Complex PTSD, relationships can feel exhausting, scary, or impossibly hard. Attachment anxiety and fear of abandonment can overwhelm even the most self-aware humans — even therapists — and leave you wondering if love will ever feel safe. In this episode, I explain […]

Navigating Patterns of Choosing Emotionally Unavailable Partners If you keep finding yourself in relationships with emotionally unavailable partners who pull away the moment things get real, this episode is for you. It is confusing and exhausting when someone feels genuinely supportive one moment and completely distant the next. Here’s the powerful truth: “emotionally unavailable” may […]