Phi Thuy Nguyen

Last night a bout of sadness hit me while I was hanging out with friends. Grief is like that, I never know. I’m never prepared. It can come as abruptly as death. It lingered through my sleep, disturbing me through the night with various thoughts and dreams poking the silence […]

As a mother, I’ve made many mistakes. And the more I am willing to encounter the wounds of my own childhood, the more clearly I see how those wounds were passed on to my children through my mothering role. This is not necessarily a life altering statement, as many of

One of the pains of trauma rooted in childhood is the child being deprived of healthy love, care, attention, security and affection from their parents and other primary caregivers. In the absence of such, the child experiences insecurities, neglect and abandonment. The primal years when children need most the experiences

When you live in codependent and narcissistic relationships, their drama becomes your trauma. Drama can show up in a number of ways, from their need to be in control, to their own self-importance, to manipulation, to anger, to withdrawal, to justification, to hyper analysis, to lack of self control and