From One Heart to Another
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Invisible Struggles
Today has been a really rough day. Not just all the normal crap that happens on a daily basis. It just felt like one of those days where it felt like the world wants to punch you in the gut repeatedly. I have PTSD from multiple traumatic events making it a complex PTSD. Sometimes no…
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Fearlessly Vulnerable
Letting go of fear is much more difficult than the words alone. Fear can squeeze into all different corners such as fear of rejection, fear of being abandoned, fear of letting someone down, and fear of heights. In many cases, some about of fear is healthy, because it helps keep us safe. When fear becomes…
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Be Authentically You
Something I wish someone would have talked to me about when I was younger is changing yourself. It is hard enough not to fall prey to peer pressure and let’s add family pressure to that. In either case, there’s always someone who wants something from you. Changing to fit in in the short term could…
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The Impact of Trauma on Safety and Healing
In Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, safety is the most important. Safety refers to both the physical and emotional safety of a person. When someone goes through trauma, their safety is shattered. The threat of life and death along with the broken emotional safety, is in both that moment and the aftermath of the event. Of…
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To and From the Comfort in the Stuffed Animal Circle
Hi there! I like your stuffed animal circle! Do you mind if we sit in it and take a minute to talk? I remember we were making a stuffed animal circle when we first started. That was always whenever we were scared, or if we thought a monster was going to get us. We’d take…
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Trauma: Seeking help for PTSD
Trauma comes in all sorts of shapes and sizes. There is no one standard for what a traumatic event is for everyone. People are all different and have different points of view on any given situation. There might be something that one person finds traumatic such as being in a car accident whereas for someone…
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To My Stand Partner
To my stand partner, I remember all the times we waited in concert halls, waited to go on stage, or even the times we did workshops. We didn’t have many moments of sadness. Mostly we laughed and worked hard to be the best that we could. All through the years, we became part of a…
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Becoming Your Own Advocate
People learn to trust whatever their doctor tells them. I’m not saying there are no trustworthy doctors, but it makes it hard for the more complex cases. This hardship comes in when realizing that you have to be your own advocate. It breaks the enchantment that thinking that this one specialist or doctor knows all,…
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To the Little Girl Hiding in the Corner
Come away from the corner and sit with me for a while. I know you may not know who I am. I have known you my whole life. We will sit here and we can just talk, play a game, or I can just hold you. I know being trapped is scary especially when in…
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Transportation Challenges from Medicaid
Transportation. Something that we all rely on to get around, yet we don’t really question it until we don’t have the means to get somewhere. I remembering being in the hospital and they were explaining to me about my new wheelchair and they kept saying how since I have Medicaid, they should offer transportation. At…