There is one thing that I was never prepared for in my healing, and that is the amount of grief we go through. It seems that once I have reached a certain point in my trauma recovery, the progress I have made comes with various amounts of it. And I’m not talking about the grief […]
For a long time, I believed that vulnerability was something to avoid. I thought it would leave me wide open to hurt and pain, and I wasn’t ready for that. But as I’ve worked on healing, I’ve come to realize something that I never fully understood before: vulnerability can actually be a source of empowerment. […]
A lot of what I will write about on this website is about healing and growth. After all, putting in the work to heal means that you will look at life a lot differently. You begin to appreciate the small moments and find strength in your vulnerability. I guess in the clinical world it is […]
I am someone who needs to understand things. I like to deep dive and learn. So, having trauma and cPTSD, it has always been mind-boggling to me why I would do certain things or act in certain ways without fully understanding as to why. Today, in therapy, I was confronted with some hard truths. I […]
I have been doing a lot of soul-searching lately. Looking at my life over the years and where I am today. I’ve really tried not to play victim or look at my life as if I was dealt a bad hand. I do, however, see what trauma has cost me, what it has done to […]
Emotional honesty is the practice of communicating your feelings and listening to others’ feelings without judgment, criticism, or defense, and it really needs to be normalized a lot more. Even though I have been guilty of not practicing emotional honesty in the past, I am making a conscious effort to doing so now. Having gone […]
