Blog by Elena

As the year draws to a close, reflecting on experiences of trauma, violence, and loss can help us understand how they shape our lives. This reflection is not therapy, but an opportunity to explore patterns, insights, and resilience.

Holidays and celebrations can stir deep emotions for those experiencing loss. Understanding grief, setting gentle boundaries, and finding personal rituals can help navigate this challenging time with compassion and self-awareness.

Psychoeducation offers knowledge, understanding, and practical tools that help people navigate trauma, grief, and emotional overwhelm. It empowers self-awareness and coping without replacing therapy or professional guidance.

BeChrysalis provides psychoeducational resources to help adults understand trauma, grief, and emotional regulation. Unlike therapy, these resources focus on insight, awareness, and personal reflection, not diagnosis or treatment.

Healing from trauma, grief, or emotional overwhelm rarely follows a straight path. Understanding the non-linear nature of recovery, with progress, setbacks, and plateaus, can help you approach your journey with patience, self-compassion, and clarity.

Complex PTSD (C-PTSD) is a form of trauma-related stress that develops from prolonged or repeated trauma. This post breaks down what C-PTSD is, how it can affect daily life, and ways to understand and navigate its impact, all in clear, accessible language.

Coping with overwhelming emotions can feel confusing, especially after trauma or loss. Learning to move from avoidance to active emotional regulation helps you feel more grounded, resilient, and in control of your emotional life.

Emotional abuse doesn’t always leave visible scars, but its effects can quietly shape how we see ourselves, connect with others, and move through the world. Understanding these long-term impacts can help survivors make sense of their experiences and begin to reclaim their sense of self.

Survivorship guilt is a deeply human response to living through something others did not. This post explores what survivorship guilt is, why it happens, and how to understand it with compassion rather than shame.

Communities impacted by collective violence, whether through war, terrorism, mass shootings, or systemic oppression, carry wounds that go beyond individual grief. This post explores how communities recover together, why collective healing matters, and what steps support long-term resilience.