Category: Trauma

  • Whispering Roots

    Thank you Puglia for being so kind to me… and for making this solitary Christmas far less lonely than I thought it might end up being 🎄. The whole region of Apulia (or in proper Italian, Puglia) felt desolate over Christmas. Everything was closed. Making me acutely aware of the fact that everyone else was…

  • Living with complex trauma

    A few days ago, I saw this online:“When you’ve experienced recurring trauma your nervous system learns to always keep you braced and prepared for more. It doesn’t understand when it’s over for good. All it knows is that it kept happening and it thinks it’s going to keep happening. This is the complex in complex…

  • Living with c-PTSD… my Daily Reality

    It took me a very long time to understand my traumata. It took me even longer to dare to say out loud “I am traumatized.” What I felt and dealt with every day of my life was my normal. I didn’t realize it wasn’t supposed to be like this until I entered my 50ies and…