Can the Horrors of Halloween Drain Away, Leaving Room for Fun?
Reblogged from Discussing Dissociation: For most dissociative trauma survivors, Halloween is a difficult time. Halloween is an expansion filled with horrific memories, vivid flashbacks, overwhelming...
View ArticleWhat I will tell my children about the Newtown Massacre
Nat Sakunworarat My readers, my friends, on this day after tragedy, if I could I would just sit with you and listen and validate your feelings about what has happened. Since I can’t be there with each...
View ArticleYour Turn…
*whispers*….come close. No closer, I want to tell you a secret… Just between you and me, I don’t what to write this week…I’m trying (and succeeding) to distance myself from my past. It is not...
View ArticleLiving Outside the Bubble
George Hodan Once upon a time, a friend of mine (it’s always a friend, right?) related this story to me. I will tell it in her words as if, you know, as if they were my own, but of course they aren’t....
View ArticleLetter to the Editor: "…could not cope"
Marilyn VanDerbur, author of Miss America By Day, is one of my heroes. She is an incest survivor, and she encourages other survivors to speak up and write letters to magazines and newspapers about...
View ArticleChanging the Narrative…
If a rose by any other name would smell as sweet (Shakespeare) does it matter if we use the label “victim” or “survivor? For those who have not experienced trauma the difference may seem like...
View ArticleMusic Therapy: Good for What Ails You
Earlier today (Wednesday) as I drowned my sorrows in Death by Chocolate ice cream with chocolate syrup, my husband said, “Who needs Prozac when you have chocolate, right?” Funny dear. He was trying to...
View ArticleDream Graveyard
Have you ever wondered where dreams go when they die? Is there some kind of graveyard for their empty shells to rest? Or perhaps they don’t really die, we just take them to the airport and wish them...
View ArticleRebuilding When Life Whacks You
I received a big disappointment today. It was not unexpected, but it still hurt. So I’m thinking today about how we recover when you feel like one of the moles in a game of Whack-a-mole. Trouble is...
View ArticleRelapse Happens
If you have followed my blog for a while, or even if you are new, but looked at the archives, you will notice that I am gradually healing. Too gradually for my taste, but I don’t seem to get a choice...
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