Trauma

When They Say They Don’t Want Any Drama, It’s a Warning About Them

They’re telling you they can’t…

RELATIONSHIPS

You’re Doing This to Me Right Now?

When timing is truly terrible.

Dear Mom, I Hate You. Please Come Back

I wish things were different but they aren’t.

The Danger of Centering Trauma in Your Life Story

You are your strength, not your struggle

My Dog Got Me Through My Trauma

For every pet owner, there’s one animal against whom all others are…

My Child (Wide Wings)

Don't you know my child
There are others outside
No need to decide
Which way left or right

I Overexplain Today Because I Was Gaslighted as a Child

I’m working at stopping this behavior. Here’s…

Watching My Grandfather’s Holocaust Testimony for the First Time

Reflections and takeaways from…

Remembering Love Like I’m Eight

How a long-lost childhood friend taught me to love again

An Exorcism

I now understand why Joan Didion wrote “The Year of Magical Thinking.”