The past two months have triggered my trauma in many ways. I thought I had dealt with some of the trauma that’s come to the surface already. Turns out, dealing with trauma and unpacking it is a process of dealing with emotional and physical response landmines. Dealing with trauma and healing from it is not
Tag: Self-Care
My relationship with food has always been a struggle. As I’ve said before, I was born, raised, and still live in Georgia, USA. In the south, we celebrate and comfort with unhealthy food. Those foods taste fantastic! I feel guilty eating those foods. That sentence makes me roll my eyes at myself as I type
If you have read this blog regularly, you are aware the last few months have been very difficult for my family and I. Such circumstances are not conducive to taking care of myself well. It is much too easy to try to take care of everybody else and not myself. Last week I started not
Today has been a tough day. I’ve been the target of scammers all day. I’ve spent my day learning how to make my online life safer. I thought I would share what I’ve discovered with you all. The tips and tricks are below. I hope these tips help you all feel safer. As I learn
Last week I was talking to mom and she said something profound I want to share with all of you and talk about. She said, “Stop giving people access to you that only show up for you at their convenience.” I took that in. Mom thinks I’m getting used by certain people in my life.
If you’ve been following for a while, you know that the last six weeks or so has been hard in my family. While things are looking up, we’ve still got some hard stuff to walk through. Music always helps me process my feelings and work through them. I have been listening to an awful lot
I am working on being more comfortable and more vulnerable around the people who love me. My default is to say I am OK when I am not. I do not want to burden anybody with my problems because life is hard for everybody. what I am learning is that by being vulnerable with the
Today I want to talk about healing from trauma. In this case when I say trauma, I mean emotional trauma. I cannot speak on physical trauma healing because I have never experienced physical trauma, so I am not even going to try. Healing from emotional trauma is in some ways more complicated because it cannot
I know I haven’t posted as many blog posts as you all are used to the last few weeks. For that, I apologize. I’ve had a family emergency. It is within my immediate family. We are still going through it, but I’ll do my best to keep up with blog posts going forward. I appreciate
I want to talk about something that has served me well with all of you. Trusting your instincts. I don’t think this is talked about enough. If you feel like something is wrong, as in you get a bad vibe in a certain situation, you are probably correct. Having one of those feelings is your