Healing childhood trauma means learning to sit with your emotions. Learning to identify, feel, and honor them. But what does that even mean?
5 Steps For Sitting With Your Emotions
Journal Prompts: All in the Emotions
Sometimes we need a prompt to get the wheels spinning. Here are Journal Prompts to help Trauma Survivors Explore Emotions
It Was His Choice to Make
The losses just keep coming.The hurt that comes with.The constantly echoing "WHY?"keeps bouncing around in my head. I don’t even know how to explain the kind of week, hell - month that I have had. The punches keep coming and I keep wondering how many more I can take before I can’t punch back anymore.... Continue Reading →
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 →
“No Judgement”
A quick look into one of my therapy sessions as I learn new levels of awareness regarding emotional regulation.
Vulnerability and Confidence
The road to recovery is definitely not straight.
Farewell, My Child
Acceptance of life's fluidity can be difficult.
I Dreamt of Death Last Night
What my nightmare was really telling me ...
4 Days in the Dark & Realizing Emotional Strength
I walked into my pain and realized more than I could have expected.
Haiku: Emotional Chaos
Sometimes I don't have many words for the chaos in my head as I deal with the long-term effects of childhood sexual abuse. Chaos. That is really the only word I can think of to describe it. The simplicity of Haiku helps me slow down the emotional onslaught. Here are a few I've jotted down... Continue Reading →
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