child abuse – I Have Something To Say

It’s Mothers Day, and All I Want is to Grieve

I dread Mothers Day, and the weeks leading up to it. Around the first of May, it begins. That uncomfortable

The first time it happened that I can remember, I was three years old. Three. That alone ought to be

Childhood trauma is a uniquely confusing experience. For many of us, the very people whom we were required to rely

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A couple years ago, I hit a serious wall. I was emotionally and physically exhausted, but didn’t understand why. Sure,

Healing from narcissistic and emotional abuse is a lifelong unraveling. One has to scrape through many layers of gunk made

Those who have survived abusive childhoods at some time or another have run into someone (or many people) making banal

Healing can be a long process, especially from complex trauma. There is an entire lifetime of coping mechanisms that survivors

I am one of many who struggle with the loud pops and bangs of the Fourth of July. I am

When I was a child, I had no tools or language to understand the abuse that was happening to me.

When I was thirteen, my father burst into my room while I was doing my homework, and demanded that