Tag: therapy

Best Tweets for Trauma Survivors (week ending 01/22/10)

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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Best Tweets for Trauma Survivors (Week ending 01/15/10)

I have been remiss in not mentioning my inspiration for these “Best Tweets” posts. That distinction belongs to Jane Friedman of There Are No Rules at Writer’s Digest, who compiles a weekly “Best Tweets for Writers” post. She was both helpful and generous in pointing me toward ways to automate some of this process. (Still …

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Best Tweets for Trauma Survivors (Week ended 1/8/10)

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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Best Tweets For Trauma Survivors at Year End

Best Tweets For Trauma Survivors is another new regular feature (in addition to Favorite Tweetstuff, posted yesterday). I am setting up the mechanism by which I can more efficiently collect tweets for inclusion, and will source from a wider sampling than I present here in my first Best Tweets post. My selections are entirely subjective, …

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Triggers Inform You

Many abuse survivors are hyper-sensitive to things that remind them — or trigger a response in them — of a danger or grievous wrong that happened long ago. It feels fresh, though. It may appear quite innocently, as in a song not heard in years, or a certain smell from the kitchen or someone’s perfume. …

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My Life In Thirds

When one’s life has always embraced writing, publicly and privately, it’s hard to leave it behind for awhile. But I managed to do just that, however misguided the impulse.  Then I cast about forlornly wondering what was missing. I spent the first third of my life in a daze, reeling from profound child abuse issues …

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