Owning My Reality
It is not easy living in reality, and my mind’s ability to close the curtains on my trauma remains unmatched.
Topic: trauma
It is not easy living in reality, and my mind’s ability to close the curtains on my trauma remains unmatched.
On a national scale, an increase in violent events has impacted and is impacting the mental health of all communities.
After you have lived through repeated traumatic experiences, things considered ‘safe’ are exactly those traumatic experiences.
Cricket taught me that hope is everlasting—but sometimes you have to think outside of the box to find what works for you.
I was completely unaware of the things that had been stored in my body for years.
Sometimes I imagine life to be like a playlist of songs, but it’s on shuffle and you don't know what song will come next.
We're not meant to remain in this state of chronic shock. And yet, here we are.
Your friends at school start to text you: Are you safe? Are you breathing OK? Are you hidden?
My fight or flight response has been active for so long that stillness often feels agonizing.
Though I have known these feelings most of my almost 52 years of life, I have only recently felt unable to manage them. Healing from trauma is so far from being linear.
While most people have heard of the “fight or flight response,” many haven’t heard of the third automatic response: freezing.
We’re taught and encouraged to feel and honor a single emotion when the holiday season is upon us.
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