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Everyone Has Rocks

How do you heal from the emotional boo-boos from childhood? Acknowledge them. Just because they may not be visible to others, doesn’t

Doing Your Work and Sleeping in Your Victory

As a runaway, I have lived in children’s forts in the woods, long abandoned empty trailers, condos under construction, condemned apartment buildings with kind

Deep Thoughts…

Deep thoughts by Jack Handy. Ok, not really, but I do have something on my mind that I want to talk about: Survival

It Takes a Very Special Kind of Soul to Love and Live with a Survivor

Sharing space with someone who has been traumatized is a challenge, and so goes the first gross understatement of the day. I was

If You See Something… Say Something

Knowing when and how to “say something” is a learn-able skill. 1. We have to practice to get braver and better, like with

They Already Know the Worst Things I've Done…Now What?!

What do you do when you’re making new friends? What do you wear? How do you behave? Do you use your best manners? What

Healing Can Be a Lifestyle

Healing is not a destination, depending on one’s reaction to trauma. Mind you, NOT the amount of trauma. Healing can be a lifestyle. It

When You Are So Deep in the Forest, You Can't See the Trees

A person who has consistently been mean asked a very close friend of mine if “she stays as far away from social media as

Lessons from a Graveyard

The best therapy workshop I ever did was from an organization called the Hoffman institute. You stay at one of their residential treatment facilities, they

Friendships

Friendships, for women so it seems, is more complicated and confusing than for men. It is potentially the most emotionally rewarding or deeply painful