About That Jack

I have a bench overlooking the Hudson River, just a stone’s throw from my apartment in New York City.

Sometimes the hardest person to forgive after childhood trauma isn’t the person who hurt you.

I recently found myself in a debate about something that comes up more and more often in conversations about trauma: whether Borderline Personality Disorder is actually Complex PTSD.

We All Have Regrets We all have regrets.

Vulnerability Doesn’t End When You Hit Publish One of the things I didn’t expect when I started writing about CPTSD was that hitting “publish” would bring a whole new kind of vulnerability.

Why Intensity Can Feel Like Connection For many people who grew up with childhood trauma, love can feel confusing.

There is something about me that you may not know: I like to laugh.

I’ve noticed something about living with CPTSD that I never expected.

I used to think healing would look different.

I Expected Relief.

Apparently I Wrote a Book Well… this is weird.