How do you write about something that people are afraid to see? How to you expose an undermining, but insidious practice? How do you change peoples’ minds? How does a civilization heal from the wounds of abuse? Those that suffer abuse are traumatized. Trauma causes a person to reside in the past where the abuse […]
https://attentiontoliving.wordpress.com/2016/03/15/abuse-is-terrorizing/
I’m in the worst part of PTSD…the months that lead up to the anniversary of the rape. The last few weeks have been tremendously difficult and I am still 6 weeks out from the actual date. PTSD, anxiety, depression and an eating disorder all change the lenses I am seeing everything through. It’s thinking I’ve […]
https://standingonmyowntwofeet.wordpress.com/2016/03/02/lenses/
Check this out! Create Fest — The 1st Annual Virtual Creativity Festival for Mental Health Professionals! I am soooo excited to be a part of this offering! Lisa Michell and Courtney Armstrong have brought together 12 influential therapists, and asked each to offer inspired approaches that will help you partner with your creativity to do […]
They took my innocence at such a young age that I dreamed of climbing an apple tree and live like the squirrels. They took my safety at such a young age that I wanted to live alone by a lake surrounded by cliffs so no one could find me, ever! They took my choice to […]
Maybe it is time that I just accept that I am broken, that I can’t be fixed. I have tried for so long to put myself back together maybe it is time I just accepted ‘me’ the way I am and carried on with my broken and painful parts. I have carried this pain for […]
https://borderlinepersonalitydisorder99.wordpress.com/2016/02/01/maybe-i-am-just-broken/
PTSD came into my life in 2011. My youngest daughter was referred to a child Psychiatrist. She was wetting her bed, peeing in hampers and garbage cans, having panic attacks, sucking on her hair and more and more disappearing into a world I did not understand. She was 5 years old. As a concerned parent I […]
