The Pain of Becoming Something New
Your present pain never hints at what you’re becoming
Betrayal Trauma
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2 little slash marks. I’ve started marking them on my wrist each morning. It’s a reminder for me when I see it to stop, find my pulse and pause. Pause and feel my heart beating. Your heart started beating 16 days after you were conceived. That’s long before you ever thought your first thought. …
“What Was I Thinking?” Dealing With Regret
What Was I Thinking? You are enjoying a beautiful morning. The sun in streaming in your windows. You are making strides with the never ending to-do list. The world isn’t so bad on this day. Then you hear the crunch of tires on your driveway. You quickly look around, the day you were ready for, …
Get Out of My Head! Dealing with Nasty Assumptions
I’m happily typing away. My thoughts are materializing before my very eyes. Electric brain synapses fire rapidly in my head and my fingers fly across the keyboard translating thought into word. It’s a small miracle forcing the abstract into the tangible. The thoughts flow freely until… Dead stop. The Man enters my space. Like a …
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When A + B = %@#&@!!! (For Hurting Women Only)
.Book “Follow your heart!” they said. She did what she thought was the right thing. She wasn’t promiscuous in her romantic relationships. She considered carefully. Chose wisely. Loved to the deepest level she knew how. Then one day she found out, he had been lying to her. The texts that she was suspicious of were …