Shana Moorefield, LCSW-C

12/21/2025

11/26/2025

This is how you keep walking when loss has rewritten everything.

Grief stays with you. You don't "get over it." You expand to hold it.

Carrying joy alongside grief isn't betrayal. It's balance. It's honoring both the love you lost and the life you still have.

Some days grief will be heavier. Some days joy will lead. Most days, you'll carry both.

That's what it is to be human. To hold it all. To keep going. To stay soft even when the world has broken you open.

Your grief is holy. And so is your joy.

11/06/2025

Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD) is caused by prolonged or repeated exposure to extremely threatening events. These events can include:

🩵 Childhood Abuse
🩵 Dometic Violence
🩵 Intimate Parter Violence
🩵 War
🩵 Torture
🩵 S*x Trafficking
🩵 Slavery
🩵 Genocide
🩵 Kidnapping
🩵 Imprisonment
🩵 Medical Abuse

Traumatic stress can change your brain's chemistry and structure. Studies suggest that trauma is associated with permanent changes in key areas of your brain, including your:

🧠 Amygdala: the part of your brain that processes fear and other emotions.
🧠 Hippocampus: the part of your brain that's largely responsible for learning and memory.
🧠 Prefrontal cortex: The part of your brain that's involved in executive functions, such as planning, decision-making, personality expression, and controlling social behavior.

If you have experienced any of these events and are experiencing any of the listed symptoms, you may have CPTSD. A trauma-informed therapist can help you process what you've been through and teach you tools to manage these symptoms.

Healing is possible and you are not alone. 🫶🏻

10/30/2025

10/19/2025

Not sure why this one spoke to me today. I was contemplating drawing a new doodle but this one popped up and I felt like posting it. Enjoy! May you see all the ways gold is being built within you even through the hard times.