Betrayal Trauma

Has Your ‘Get-Up-and-Go’ Got Up and Went?

My mom used to say, “My ‘get up and go’ has got up and went.” I’m sure we all can relate to that a time or two. The surprising thing is that phrase was spoken by a lady who had 10 kids in 13 years, 2 horses, 2 cows, 2 dogs, several chickens, sometimes a …

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Rebel & Grow: Ode to My Poetic Father

I can’t say I’m passionate about poetry. I rarely read it. I most often don’t get it.. What I do get is the feeling that the author is trying to communicate something and I just want to say “Out with it, already!’ Except my Dad’s poetry. He was a master of the Poetic form AABB, …

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What I Discovered in My Journal.

  Sitting cross-legged on my office floor digging through 20+ years of journals I was confronted with some awful realizations. I listen to lots of podcasts and audio books and that morning while chasing dog hair around my house with the vacuum cleaner I heard a speaker say she was an avid journal writer. She …

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