Peace and the Traumatized Brain

When things feel calm, do you start to scramble? I used to, and still do sometimes, but now I recognize it. When you are so used to chaos or catastrophe or just trying to make it through day to day things, having something go right feels downright scary. It feels unnatural. And it’s such a …

Awakening

We resist what we don’t understand. But you know what’s cool? When you start to awaken. When you start to wake up. Obviously I didn’t know it at the time, in fact I thought I was very much awake, and trying to break cycles, but I was mostly living in a codependent haze until I …

Free from Difficult

I struggled for a long, long time- being defined as difficult. I was told I was difficult or “too sensitive” for so many years that I would sacrifice any need, no matter how fundamentally necessary, to avoid it. I really didn’t want to be those things. Until one day, I realized- I’m not “too sensitive.” …