Much of my life has been spent in fighting external controls, whether it involved a toxic family of origin, or later, toxic relationships that I chose because I didn’t know/understand what occurred in my childhood. When you don’t know who is controlling you or why, fighting it results in a lot of exhausting struggle. …
Category: Getting Unstuck
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Oct 29 2010
Best Tweets for Trauma Survivors (week ending 10/29/10)
Best Tweets for Trauma Survivors is a weekly Friday feature. My selections are entirely subjective, and I know it will never be possible to include every great resource tweeted. But I can try! I’ve personally read all tweeted links, and believe them to be of great value. Disclaimer: I am in no way responsible for …
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Aug 13 2010
It's Easy to Forget Milestones
I had to go back and look up the date. A couple of days ago, August 10th, was the first anniversary of this blog! Yeah! Part of me wants to downplay it. I tend to do that with things I value, from a long ago lesson that if I really care about something it will …
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May 07 2010
Best Tweets for Trauma Survivors (week ending 05/07/10)
Best Tweets for Trauma Survivors is a weekly Friday feature. My selections are entirely subjective, and I know it will never be possible to include every great resource tweeted. But I can try! I’ve personally read all tweeted links, and believe them to be of great value. Disclaimer: I am in no way responsible for …
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Jan 24 2010
Dissociative Echoes from 1994
Please consider donating to Doctors Without Borders here or at the bottom of this post. This is a story about dissociation, and how nothing one dissociates is ever truly “gone”. I procrastinated starting this post, although it’s nagged at me since the day of the Haiti earthquake. I feared whatever was making me feel afraid. …
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Nov 11 2009
Time Is A Frustrating Concept
I’m working on a soon to launch project — at least I hope it’s soon — that is eating up a lot of free time, and which I used to justify not adding a new post here for a week. I am frustrated by how slow it’s moving, and by the fact that I fell …
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