Category: human trafficking
Posted on June 1, 2019
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I don’t think I’ve ever gone this long without posting. For what it’s worth, I’m almost ready to move from the Twin Cities to the Bay Area. This has been a daunting task requiring maximum effort. So much good has come from the endless… Continue Reading “Expanding Your Life: Unearthing Negative Core Beliefs”
Category: Complex PTSD, Healing, human trafficking, mental health, Moving Forward, personal development, PTSD, sex trade, traumaTags: an intentional life, Complex PTSD, healing process, human trafficking, narrative approach, negative core beliefs, personal development, torture and human trafficking, trauma
Posted on March 6, 2019
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I think I’ve tried to write a blog post six or seven times in six or seven weeks and failed each time. If you knew my writing process, then you would know that is not me. I have never had a problem writing anything. … Continue Reading “Resiliency and Vulnerability”
Category: domestic abuse, domestic violence, encouragement, human trafficking, mental health, Moving Forward, personal development, Recovery, self-advocacy, trauma, Women's IssuesTags: domestic abuse, healing process, personal development, practicing vulnerability, resiliency, Resiliency Spectrum, trauma
Posted on July 14, 2018
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I have devoted a lot of space on this blog to writing about PTSD, C+PTSD, and healing from trauma. I’ve been honest about my own journey towards wholeness. What I share here is an attempt to elucidate the emotional experience behind C+PTSD in specific… Continue Reading “Generalized Anxiety vs. PTSD Anxiety”
Category: abuse in families, anxiety, Complex PTSD, domestic abuse, emotional abuse, Healing, human trafficking, mental health, PTSD, traits in victims, traumaTags: anxiety related to trauma, Complex PTSD, generalized anxiety, healing from PTSD, hypervigilance, mindfulness and trauma, PTSD, trauma, trauma recovery
Posted on June 13, 2018
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I feel like I’m writing installments for a weird soap opera–“Tune in today for the continuation of the saga. Will there be an investigation? Will the administration give up their lazy ways and comply with Title IX? Will there still be a hearing? What… Continue Reading “What’s Behind Victim-Blaming?”
Category: advocacy, blame, harassment, human trafficking, self-advocacy, Women's IssuesTags: discrimination, gender-based discrimination, Office of Civil Rights, sexual harassment, social justice, victim blaming
Posted on May 5, 2018
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In a state of anxious frustration, I wrote about sexual harassment a few month’s ago. Another student was sexually harassing me, and my school’s administration was less than stellar in their handling of the situation. Well, they really didn’t handle it. The situation is… Continue Reading “Reporting Sexual Harassment and Trauma”
Posted on February 12, 2018
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I have been trying to find an appropriate way to write about a particular “emotional” experience that I have endured for years. I wouldn’t blog about this were it not for the fact that most survivors of trauma seem to experience something quite similar. … Continue Reading “Healing Past Trauma in The Present”
Category: Healing, human trafficking, panic attacks, PTSD, therapy, traumaTags: biologically embedded trauma, essential oils in emotional healing, healing, PTSD, therapeutic process, trauma recovery
Posted on December 7, 2017
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Jack the New Therapist aka the FNG will be no longer. It has become a failed collaboration. That is what my reasonable self says. My snarky self is pointing at this: Jack has one of the worst Resting Bored Faces I’ve come across. There are… Continue Reading “A Timely Ending”
Category: divorce, domestic abuse, emotional abuse, encouragement, Healing, human trafficking, mental health, personal development, PTSD, therapy, traumaTags: cognitive dissonance, domestic abuse, EMDR, healing from PTSD, healing from trauma, myth of arrival, Recovery, Resting Bored Face, therapy, when a therapist isn't effective
Posted on September 3, 2017
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I don’t know about you, but I don’t like people knowing about my deeper, darker trauma history. I don’t like people knowing that I ultimately ended my marriage because of domestic violence. It goes without saying that I don’t like people knowing that I… Continue Reading “Claude and Me”
Category: Complex PTSD, Healing, human trafficking, mental health, Moving Forward, PTSD, self-advocacy, traits in victims, traumaTags: common experience, fear of alligators, healing process, human trafficking and PTSD, PTSD, Recovery, self-advocacy, torture and human trafficking
Posted on June 3, 2017
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I wanted to write something germane to your life and process. Something that might speak to you. To anyone. To everyone. Perhaps this might. I go to therapy every Tuesday. I like to think that I’m ‘getting it done’ whatever ‘it’ is, but, as… Continue Reading “The Essence of Healing”
Category: anxiety, Complex PTSD, domestic violence, encouragement, Healing, human trafficking, mental health, personal development, PTSD, therapy, traumaTags: anxiety, Complex PTSD, fear of annihilation, healing after divorce, healing process, Recovery, therapeutic process
Posted on January 27, 2015
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I want to recommend a book. I also want to be careful in how I go about recommending it. I wrote at least a year ago that I questioned how the Church at large would be able to handle a hypothetical influx of emancipated… Continue Reading “A Sea Change”
Category: Christianity, Community, Evangelical church, God, Healing, human trafficking, Jesus, Judaism, sex, sex trade, Sexual Abuse, Women's IssuesTags: central message of Christianity vs. Christian culture, Christian culture, Christianity and domestic violence statistics, human trafficking, sex, sexual healing after sexual abuse, sexuality and Christian culture
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