My Fearless Life

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder creates a disregulated stress response in many of us who survived Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). The...

Intrusive thoughts keep me awake. Sometimes they have a passing woosh, like a stinky wind. Other times, they come and sit on my chest, mak...

(modified post from July 2014.) For a couple of days I've contemplated what to write about next. I know I've written about topics...

(Written in August, 2014 adapted Nearly August, 2019.) New years eve I participated in a twitter #ideaparty hosted by Barbara Sher. S...

I don't have kids unless inner children and a cat count. For some reason, I picked up on parenting tips from TV because it really seem...

I wonder where I bonded with trauma from my childhood? I know that I get a kind of weird excitement when telling a story. I still think th...

As a survivor of abuse, so much emotional distress can come from political news. The #metoo movement, rape culture and abuse culture being...