You who abused me. Pushed, and “challenged” me, you who raped me, not caring how I felt or what I needed. You inspired me to believe that I would beat you by choosing to survive. You chose to abuse. I chose to live. Now here I am and […]
Each of us deals with trauma differently. Some of us hold onto it, and manage to make a life out of the abuse that we have experienced without ever having to share our stories. Some of us make a life for ourselves that is filled with notable accomplishments […]
I’ve been thinking about this, and I wrote a thread about it on Twitter, but I wanted to expand on these ideas. When it’s time to open the door to love, how do you know that you’ll survive it if things go bad? How do you know that […]
About three weeks ago I was completely asleep when I heard a small tiny sound. I woke up, screamed as loud as I could and realized the thing that had scared me was a pair of freshly born kittens who were running around my bedroom. But God damn […]
That’s what healing from childhood sexual abuse and trauma, domestic abuse and trauma and PTSD is like. It feels like I am building a wall out of brick pebbles one at a time, and every time I get one side of the wall built another part starts to […]