I can’t read minds, all I can do is trust a person’s words and ask for clarification if I’m unsure of my interpretation. Evidence of trustworthiness is valuable to recognize. I don’t have to trust everyone all the time, but it’s unsustainable to never trust anyone. There are many different levels of trust, a small … Continue reading You Can Actually Trust These 15 Affirmations About Trust
We’ve all known catastrophe. The apocalypse exists within Caput Corvi, the symbol of a decapitated crow. Our internal reasoning cannot keep up with the crises of our circumstances. The crow forces us to change so that we may learn to begin doing so willingly. Patterns repeat, break, transform. Life is a series of cycles, some … Continue reading Psychological Healing: Experiences with the Alchemical Crow
My restraining order against her has been expired for years and I don’t need another one, yet she still haunts my life and fosters discouragement within me. How to rebuke discouragement? Are we driven by praise? Pride? Regret? Why keep trying? What is discouragement? Perhaps a mild paranoia, a sense of shame, embarrassment— cures are … Continue reading Encouraged (Isolation)
We all have different stories, tragedies, little secrets that become big that become destigmatization if they cease being secret, but if we’ve lived with trauma for a significant amount of time (especially childhood trauma) we may not notice how big of an impact they‘be had on our lives. Our personalities and behaviours have adopted trauma … Continue reading Recognizing Trauma Responses
This week is a difficult time for me but I’m appreciative of how much I’ve grown in a year. I’ve graduated from the person I used to be. Though I remain an anxious person, I’m more emotionally stable even when I’m not— I can move on, cope, gain control over myself from the hands of … Continue reading Time and I
You and I must remain protective and nurturing of our growth and healing. Prioritization is at times genuinely agonizing, the worst of most growing pains, because the way we prioritize is influenced by our very core, so to change, we must change our most inner structures. Consistency in our dedication to our development is not … Continue reading “Draw a Sacred Circle Around Your Recovery”
Trauma, fear, our experiences can give contextual power to any object we have encountered before. An article of clothing, a certain scent, an everyday household item, so unassuming and yet when tied to a particular memory, to us and our instincts they become anything but harmless. CW: references to abuse and sexual violence Most people … Continue reading PTSD and the Ordinary Object
You’re telling someone about a trauma, the person you’re speaking to didn’t know it occurred and maybe was in your life at the time it happened. You worry they might feel guilty or extrapolate that you blame them. Here are some tips to keeping the conversational flow and giving subtle assurance without spending your energy … Continue reading Having the Difficult Conversations
Exposed, raw nerves under the skin, soul naked to the universe, the bipolar mania visits you on the springtime breeze with dancing cabbage butterflies and pollen motes. It comes in full episodes and hypomania and mixed episodes. You’re confined and claustrophobic. Your skin is too tight. Your mind merges with the world mind and you … Continue reading The Bipolar Agoraphobic
Gender is a fluid construct and I try to avoid generalizations as a rule, but the common denominator for almost all of my trauma is men. There are toxic cycles of entitlement that crop up predominantly on one side of the gender spectrum. This isn’t a manifesto against men. This is a manifesto against the … Continue reading Bonding with Men is a Dangerous Game
Sustaining Practice 