Author: Survivors Voice

  • Grieving the Death of the Person I Was

    Content Warning: This piece explores themes of trauma, grief, and self-acceptance, including references to suicide, emotional numbness, and self-doubt. If you’re in a vulnerable place, please read with care and take breaks if needed. You are not alone. 💙 Hey Guys. Is that my voice I hear echoing out in the ether? whatever. I wanted read more

  • The Window of Tolerance: How Trauma Lives in the Body

    Read Time: Est 6 Minutes When the body perceives a threat, it initiates a physiological and hormonal reaction commonly known as the Fight or Flight response. This survival mechanism, ingrained in us through evolution, helps us fight back, flee, or freeze when we face danger or harm. However, after staying in fight-or-flight mode for too read more

  • Searching for Meaning When it Looks Like There is None

    I used to think that everything happened for a reason, and I’ve always gone through life looking for the good in bad situations. This was no different—I guess I was just searching for any kind of indication that there was some sort of cosmic meaning or lesson to this terrible thing that I had gone read more