Vibrant Health Company

06/06/2026

If I lived in NYC or Milan, I might not get weird looks when I go out in my tutu or any other fashionista-vibe clothes. But I live in a tiny town in the UP, so…..

I’m still gonna wear all my birthday clothes because they speak to my inner dress up girl child ❤️💋💞

This is a reminder to beU. To hell with what other people think! 🙌✊🏼💋

06/05/2026

A “trigger” is more than an emotional reaction. It's physiological. It’s the brain triggering us to move into emergency mode.

In neuroscience, this is called an Amygdala Hijack. The brain senses danger, the nervous system activates, the body responds, and logical thinking becomes harder to access, even when there is no actual threat.

This response is unconscious and deeply connected to survival and past trauma.

Common trauma responses can include freeze, fight, flight, fold, fawn, appease, attach, and dissociation.

Understanding the neurobiology of trauma can help reduce shame and create space for healing.

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06/03/2026

Some relationships don’t end because people stop caring.

People slowly become overwhelmed by unresolved hurt, defensiveness, mistrust, and emotional exhaustion.

One person searches for reassurance.
The other withdraws to protect themselves.
And over time, even ordinary moments begin carrying the weight of old pain.

A forgotten birthday.
Feeling unsupported during grief.
Feeling criticized.
Feeling dismissed.
Feeling like your needs no longer matter.

When emotional injuries remain unresolved, couples can become trapped in cycles where both people feel misunderstood at the same time.

That doesn’t make either person “bad.”
It means the relationship may be carrying more pain than either partner knows how to hold on their own.

Share this if you know what it feels like to love someone while feeling emotionally far away from them.

06/01/2026

Shame is not just an emotion or thought that can be retrained through reframing alone.

It is a deeply embodied state shaped by prolonged rejection, disconnection, and unmet needs. Often beginning before a child even has words for what is happening, shame can live in the nervous system as an enduring feeling of being wrong, bad, or fundamentally unlovable.

This is why cognitive strategies alone often fall short. Healing involves carefully processing the experiences that encoded that shame in the first place, within a safe relational context where new meanings and internal experiences can emerge.

Your therapist sees your light and helps guide you back to being human.

Learn more at:
www.vibranthealthcompany.com

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05/29/2026

Many people living with CPTSD also have ADHD; in fact, it's about 85%. The reasons for that lie in how the brain develops under conditions of insufficient attachment (neglect/abuse) or environmental stress. Access to screening and care for ADHD, whether its origin is a neurodevelopmental condition or early childhood stress (ELS), should not depend on your zip code. Our new partnership with Mentavi ensures that ADHD testing and medications are available to individuals in underserved communities.

Share this post if it helps bring more understanding to the connection between CPTSD, ADHD, and lifelong misdiagnosis.

05/27/2026

You can live in the same house as other people
and still feel completely invisible.

For many people living with complex trauma, the pain is not only about what happened.

It is also about what was missing:
being understood, protected, affirmed, respected, or emotionally safe.

Over time, chronic invalidation can teach a nervous system to stay guarded, disconnected, hyperaware, or numb.

Not because someone is “too sensitive.”
Because survival changes people.

Sometimes the behaviors that look confusing from the outside are attempts to cope with overwhelm, shutdown, loneliness, or emotional pain that has nowhere to go.

You deserved environments where you did not have to disappear to stay safe.

Share this with someone who has spent too long feeling unseen.

05/27/2026

Local event with collaborators.
Because it takes a village.✊🏼

05/25/2026

CPTSD isn’t simply “more severe PTSD.” It is a fundamentally different condition that requires a different kind of care.

Meaningful healing rarely comes from quick, one-size-fits-all treatments. It comes from a phased, flexible, and integrative approach that addresses the mind, body, and relationships over time.

When treatment truly matches the complexity of the trauma, lasting recovery becomes possible.

This framework leaves nothing to chance, and your patients deserve that.

Clinicians interested in learning more can download the Clinical Social Work Journal publication here:
https://vibranthealthcompany.com/for-practitioners

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05/24/2026

Recent Press Release Features Our New Prescriber Partner and Looks at ADHD-CPTSD

Virtual multidisciplinary practice incorporates structured, clinician-reviewed ADHD assessment to support diagnostic rigor and access in underserved regions