Category: Archive
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A Mental Disorder Is Not An Identity
CPTSD is just something that is in my way, and every day I chip at it a little bit more because I will not let it control me and dictate the course of my life.
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PTSD and Cholesterol: Does PTSD really make it more likely to have high cholesterol?
What has become apparent to me while doing this research is that PTSD on its own is not what causes any of these conditions, but much of it is ruled by our everyday decisions to either show up for ourselves and take care of our bodies, or not.
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Reviewing a year of failures and few accomplishments
Getting Old Is Easy The closer I get to forty, the more I start to reflect on my life. As much as I want to be proud of how much I have overcome, I still can’t shake the feeling that I have been robbed. It may be more apt to say that I go back…
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CPTSD : A perspective on the invisible wounds and murder of creativity
Our brains don’t consider creativity to be a survival tool I have taken an accidental hiatus from writing this blog lately, and I hope this return post is not too disapointing, but I feel it is a good time to explore why it is just so hard to get anything out. In my previous article…
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Nothing Worth It Is Ever Easy : Hard Truths on Boundaries
On the contrary, we tend to stick around with the devil that we know, and the devil that we know is aware that they have the power in a relationship because they know an open wound when they see one.
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Reflections On My Healing Journey – Perspectives on Healing and Gardening
The process of healing feels like watching plants grow; progress is slow and all you want is the fruit that comes at the end.
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The War Inside – A musing on human nature.
Human beings are complicated creatures. Maybe Freud got it at least partially right when he separated the human consciousness into the Id, Ego, and Super Ego.
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How Far is Far Enough?
How far is far enough away to escape the past? I am further away now from the place of my birth than I have ever lived. I wish could say it was an entirely pleasant journey, but it was more of a flight.
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Don’t Sit in Your Pain: Advice on Healing from Emotional Trauma
Part of the reason why recovery is so hard is because it requires us to completely rewire ourselves, change all our habits, overcome things that we didn’t even know were a trauma response.
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The Embers Of Hope
Have I indeed already lost hope? Perhaps it left in the middle of the night without my knowledge like a disheartened lover. It was once so bright; burning like an ember that illuminates the promise of a new fire.
Diary of a Flopping Fish 