For You, Survivor, just beginning
For You, just starting your healing path, as an adult survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse and/or Incest Abuse… This is an arduous journey you’ve begun, to be sure. Be brave. Also, be certain: you are...
View ArticleHate being a Survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse
I’m thinking that here, each week, I will write about some aspect of being an adult survivor. Being myself, in my grown-up woman life, and having the gifts and challenges that I do, in part, because...
View ArticleSelf Pleasure and Survivorship
Tuesday, March 9, 2021 Alright, this is a bit racy…. but i want to write a little about masturbation as a Survivor. First of all, hate the word. It sounds both too technical, and too crass. And,...
View ArticleA Trauma Anniversary
Experiencing A Trauma Anniversary Monday, March 29th, 2021 Really challenging day yesterday. Sundays….always triggering (still not sure why, but very reliably so.) Add in a failed attempt at a hike...
View ArticleThe Trigger of Bedtime, as a Survivor Parent
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 I used to sort of dread bedtime with my kids when they were younger. I looked forward to it too; as an exhausted parent of 3 young boys I was so very, very ready for the...
View ArticleWhy Dinner Makes Me Nervous
Trigger warning, friends: Bulemia. For the last 6 months or so, my body sensory information has been rapidly changing and thawing. It’s a continuing evolution, an evolution, as long as I have this...
View ArticleHow ZUMBA has Changed My Life
That looks about as funny as a blog post heading as I thought it would. So, I do a Zumba class every (most) Saturday morning for the past couple months with my friend, Asha. She picks me up in her...
View ArticleIndependence Days (of Emotional Flashback)
So, I wrote this blog entry earlier this month and had the amnesia that often comes with anniversary flashbacks. Here’s proof! I forgot I’d made a really similar entry last year. I’m including both, so...
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