What makes me a great nanny is what opens me up, or makes me prone to, drawing mommy issues. However, I am thinking and beginning to believe, especially when it IS diagnose – by a licensed mental health professional – developmental trauma, is it A part of healing? Yesterday (Valentine’s Day 2022) A and EContinue reading
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Mommy Issues Yeah, those! I endured both developmental and relational trauma from birth until I put physical space between us. (It snowballed downhill fast after I cut off contact with my biological parents.) So, yeah, I have parent issues. The more you learn, the more you will, hopefully, will understand. My second peer, whom IContinue reading “Let’s talk about”
Disconnected is Surviving, Sometimes.
*** Trigger Warning *** Mental health – symptoms and mechanisms – exist on a spectrum. This may seem strange. You may already know this. It is true! Symptoms can vary in intensity – mild to severe. When a symptom impairs a person’s ability to go about their regular activities (weekly or daily), this indicates aContinue reading “Disconnected is Surviving, Sometimes.”
How lonely living with CPTSD can be
Until about October or November 2021, I had not met anyone else diagnosed with Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, in person. There are groups and communities online where I found fellow survivors. Where they were in their journies varied differently. Heck, I have even heard from the naysayers and non-believers. They are wonderful. There areContinue reading “How lonely living with CPTSD can be”
It’s Christmas Eve, 2021. I’m Reflecting
Reflecting on what? I do not know. Exactly. Or, specifically. Nor do I even know what my intent is in reflecting, at this moment at least. The best I can feel is simply because I suspect Normalizing and Rescripting are prominent for me currently. How does it feel? Weird Uncomfortable Good(ish) Positive SCARY Beautiful HarrowingContinue reading “It’s Christmas Eve, 2021. I’m Reflecting”
My 2021 Reading List
I am now reading three books: Life in my mind: 31 Authors … , edited by Jennifer … In addition, I am re-reading Chris Crutcher’s book, Chinese Handcuffs. The third book, simultaneously yet in spurts, I am also reading Irvin Yalom. MD’s book, The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a new Generation ofContinue reading “My 2021 Reading List”
My pre-2021 Recommended Reading
This is not an exhaustive list, by any stretch. They are a list of books I have enjoyed over the decades. Maybe a series. As for my reading styles, habits and the like, they have varied over decades. In my teens and twenties, I was an avid reader. True crime, mostly. Ann Rule being aContinue reading “My pre-2021 Recommended Reading”
Two Precipatiting Events
In the laundrymat and I have had enough of non-mask wearing people who have their mask under their chin instead of over their nose AND mouth! The variants had already been detected and spread, we are being forced to remain “truck camping” or “homeless” or “homeseeking” or “nomadic” or “off-grid” because people will NOT wearContinue reading “Two Precipatiting Events”
Gratitude: Growth, Progress
Dear Diary, A blog I follow, The Write Nook, recently reminded me to write about gratitude. Yes, I have heard this before. Read it. Thought about it. Pondered it. Forgot about it. Lost touch with it. Wrote it in Daylio (app). Made lists of it. Bought books about it. (List books included). And more, probably.Continue reading “Gratitude: Growth, Progress”
2021 arrived!
Not only has the year arrived, it seemed to slide in like an old quote I remember. “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally wornContinue reading “2021 arrived!”
Rusty & Wolf 2019 