Seeking professional counseling is important to healing. Journey with me each week as I spill the beans on what it's like to be a trauma survivor in therapy
Therapy Dump #11 – Sadness
Therapy Dump #10 – Transformations
Seeking professional counseling is important to healing. Journey with me each week as I spill the beans on what it's like to be a trauma survivor in therapy
The Fear that Follows Trauma
I'm just wading through the mess of parenting after trauma with a child who struggles with mental injury too.
7 Journal Prompts about Acceptance
Over the last few weeks, acceptance has been a consistent theme peppered into my struggles. As I maneuver numerous losses this month and work hard to manage my emotional responses and stress levels I have continued to write as an outlet and a means of focus for processing. In general, as a survivor of childhood... Continue Reading →
Monthly Goals: July 2020
A reflection on goals from June and new commitment to success in July.
The Bracelet
Is it coincidence,or irony,that during a time when I am intimately working oncoming to terms with the fact that I have been a motherless daughter my whole life,my own child decided to stop talking to me? How to put into words what it feels like carrying the grief that I do,of my own losses, disappointments,... Continue Reading →
Grappling with Acceptance
What a morning. Well really, what a week. Actually - it's only been a couple days.This morning I worked on a new piece,I plan to submit it to the Emerging Blog Series on Mental Health @ Home.It took me three tries, numerous breaks, and 7 hours.It's not even that deep a piece,necessarily.But it is a... Continue Reading →
The Choice to Heal
As we heal, we learn that there is no final destination in in healing childhood trauma; instead we realize that it is a daily choice that we must make.
It’s Different This Time
Parenting after trauma is difficult. It forces us to really unpack our shit so we don't hurt our kids, or ourselves further.
Managing Trauma Responses Doesn’t Make it Feel Any Less Traumatic
It's been 2.5 weeks since my world flipped. A week ago I thought I was moving comfortably into the realm of acceptance as I faced all of the emotions that came with the suddenly change and how it happened. That's the tricky thing about bargaining. Not to say that I wasn’t dipping my toes into... Continue Reading →
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