Prioritizing Your Mental Health During the Holidays
Christmas and other holidays are upon us. However, with all the holiday cheer and purchasing of presents, there also comes, for many people, a sense of dread. Some people have families of origin that are toxic, and others have no one at all. This article focuses on prioritizing...
Holiday Time After Experiencing Trauma
I wish to apologize ahead of time (or not) for the gifs you will see with this piece but I needed to lighten the subject a bit. Come on folks, let us make the holidays this year special. We all deserve it after the year we’ve had. Please, stay...
From My Heart to Yours, Happy Holidays
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Facing Thanksgiving and Christmas After Childhood Trauma
Every year people in the United States gather with their families to eat turkey or ham and enjoy each other’s company. However, for those who experienced childhood trauma growing up in a dysfunctional home, Thanksgiving and Christmas are torture as they relive the holidays of the past. This article...
The Holidays are Upon Us
The holidays, like all potentially triggering days, are for some of us a time of sorrow and depression. Living with dissociative identity disorder can make these days of the year even harder because we experience flashbacks and fear. How can we make our holidays better? I’m going to discuss...
Surviving the Holidays Despite Living with Complex Traumatic-Stress Disorder
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Suffering During Christmas is a Choice
Why Be Miserable at Christmas? Why not choose something different?...