Tag: healing
An open letter from a survivor
To other survivors: You are not alone. Not now, not ever. Crawl if you have to, but keep moving forward in the knowledge that you...
Ghost stories
There's this trick to surviving trauma. You become a ghost. If you leave your body long enough, you can't feel anything. There's no exact...
Dream mother
I had a dream that you were proud of me. You walked next to me and smiled and squeezed my hand, and that’s how I knew it...
Rage triptych
(Because three is, geometrically speaking, the most stable structure.) 1. An acquaintance once told me — at a Fourth of July parade, no less — that...
May 5th is Silence the Shame Day
May 5, 2021, is National Silence the Shame Day, a day that aims to end the stigma surrounding mental health. The hope is by...
Writing about my abuser, healing and hard-earned magic
I made a deal with myself: if my dad was too painful to write about, I would stop, knowing my healing wasn’t complete.
You can’t heal trauma with a spiritual bypass
No amount of forgiveness, meditation or crystals was going to put that genie back in the bottle.
My rapist sent me a friend request
The warrior within me has awakened and she can be powerful and fierce.
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The acknowledgement
I’m trying to be gentle with myself, but what if I never believe my body when it tells me what happened?
Have the time of your life!*
*Common side effects may include but are not limited to: harassment, stalking, getting drugged, passing out in...
To the fathers who do not abuse their daughters
On my street I am witness to the young men who carry the pink-flowered backpacks of little girls, who...
