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 “Letting Go” is a process. It’s not a one time, slam dunk, boom, it’s done. I wish it was. But then, healing would be a destination and not a journey. The gifts are given along the way, as we travel, within the journey. I see it like this: I’m not a “gamer”...

Whooooo are you…  I woke up in a Soho doorway A policeman knew my name He said, "You can go sleep at home tonight If you can get up and walk away" I staggered back to the underground And the breeze blew back my hair I remember throwin' punches around And...

  Dead Horses Don't mMove No Matter How Hard You Beat Them I was working with a young woman who has very high anxiety, extreme” what if” thinking, and life threatening fears abounded. I had high hopes for her because, unlike seemingly most of her...

 What to do to shake-off the "bad dream hang-over" I had a bad dream last night. It was about a married man with children, sexually abusing his young son and his son’s friend. In my dream, I get the wife to allow me to examine the boys for evidence of...

 Can you imagine me standing in front of a group of women and telling them that I used to be a whore and that I never finished junior high school? Or that I used to be a stripper...or a prostitute. No, I don't have a college degree. I tell them that I used to eat...

 Up to camp I like to run the railroad tracks. It's long since abandoned, no trains or people usually, and no protective dogs. This morning as I was running on either side to stay in on the flattest/shady side, I remembered my dad's brother...

 Deep thoughts by Jack Handy. Ok, not really, but I do have something on my mind that I want to talk about: Survival sex. As in women (and men) having sex with people they really would rather not have sex with…because they need something they can’t...

 Sharing space with someone who has been traumatized is a challenge, and so goes the first gross understatement of the day. I was expecting Charlie (my husband) at a certain time. It was 20 minutes before that time. I'm on the phone and doing a project when...