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Yesterday, I experienced something I hadn’t in a while: a trigger. It caught me off guard, and not in a dramatic, movie-scene way. It was quiet and sneaky, and I didn’t even realize it was happening until I was in the thick of it. Over the past few days, I’d been feeling a bit “off.” […]
If you had told me a year ago that I’d be writing a post like this, clear-headed, grounded, and dare I say… hopeful? I probably would’ve laughed. Or more likely, shut down completely and changed the subject. But here I am, at the start of 2025, taking a deep breath and recognizing just how far […]
For most of my life, I’ve kept things pretty close to the chest. I wasn’t the kind of person to open up easily. Sharing my thoughts and feelings with others felt… risky. But something’s been shifting lately. As I’ve started working on myself and my healing, I’ve realized just how powerful vulnerability can be. I […]
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 […]
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 […]
