trauma

August 12, 2023

The traumatic Reality

People are suffering from several massively terrifying things all at once: Why do you think so many went along with Nazism in the 30s? Why do you think people turned a blind eye to the horrors done to the Black community again and again? Why do you think people refused to acknowledge AIDS? Acknowledging reality Continue reading

Writing

collective grief, collective solidarity, covid, ego death, empathy, gaslighting, individualism, lack of ego death, mutual aid, pandemic, pandemic mitigations, solidarity, trauma, truth-telling
December 8, 2019

Trauma, Boundaries, and Healing

I wrote this on Facebook but wanted to share here too. Fractal was created by me, and I named it “Opening up.” Opening up to Healing We are enough. Despite our trauma, no matter our trauma, we are always enough. These are reminders for myself, but maybe they will help some of you too. I Continue reading

Author, Writing

boundaries, healing, trauma
February 2, 2019

Navigating trauma with friends

A revelation in therapy forced me to realize my lack of boundaries with friends and family. This idea that I have to be a punching bag for them, that the stories they create about situations we share, their perspectives of it will always matter more than my own, and the punishments they mete out for Continue reading

Author, Writing

healing, PTSD, trauma
October 6, 2018

In essence Thoughts on Life in This American Society

At Home Mournful harmonies and piano arpeggios grace my speakers on this grey-muted day, the clouds heavy with the threat of rain. I sit in the chair provided by my job for at-home work, and it’s stiff back and ergonomic shape adjusted for my unconventional sitting posture — curled up with feet on the seat Continue reading

Author, Books, Feminism, Philosophy, Race, transgender

discrimination, economic justice, environmental justice, fighting injustice, income inequality, inequality, injustice, intergenerational trauma, intersectional feminism, justice, PSTD, racism, social justice, transphobia, trauma
March 17, 2018

A Wrinkle in Time

When I was a child, I read Madeline L’Engle’s books to death. A Wrinkle in Time was one of my ultimate favorites, and I read it nearly as many times as I read A Ring of Endless Light (from her Austin series). There was this sense of magic despite the science nature of the Murray’s Continue reading

Books, movies, Reviews, Writing

A Wrinkle in Time, Ava Duvernay, Banned Books, control, empathy, evil, hate, healing, light, love, Meg Murry, movie, trauma
September 19, 2016

Death/Rebirth

Death/Rebirth by A. A. Zingler Emotions bubble and froth, the spring spills and spits into a torrent of motion, the light trails cascade and collide, and the black void pushes out a scream– I teeter at the edge of a long drop, the sky blazing blue with a hint of a droplet that graces my Continue reading

Art, Author, Poetry, Writing

death, despair, emotion, growth, healing, hope, poetry, PTSD, rebirth, trauma

trauma

The traumatic Reality

Trauma, Boundaries, and Healing

Navigating trauma with friends

In essence Thoughts on Life in This American Society

A Wrinkle in Time

Death/Rebirth