If you have ever found yourself wondering is your marriage struggles are related to trauma? Or why your marriage feels so hard—heavy, disconnected, and exhausting—I get it. You are not alone. I started CPTSD Medicine with a podcast literally called that: Marriage Is Hard. Marriage, or any type of intimate partnership, can feel incredibly hard […]

Partner reparenting often occurs when we unconsciously seek our partner to fill the emotional void left by an unattuned or absent caregiver, but this disrupts the balance of healthy relationships. Your partner is not your parent.  This is such a tough one, because when you have never experienced the love of an attuned, caring parent […]

Do you make fear-based decisions on the daily? When you are living with Unresolved CPTSD you are often also living in fear. Fear that your partner will leave you. Fear that you will become penniless without a job. Fear that you are a fool, an evil person, or worthless. Fear that you are fat and […]

One of the most overlooked consequences of untreated or unresolved CPTSD is the emergence of behaviors that can feel, or be perceived as, selfish. Addressing this directly is not about shame or blame—it is about understanding the deeper layers beneath it. You are not selfish. You are not a bad person. But when your internal […]