I never cared much for the label,’ disorder.’ I got used to living with it hanging round my neck, like a sign directing others to crazy. Did I ask for it. No. No one does. When I received it as a diagnosis I felt relieved. I knew I dissociated, I Continue Reading
Safety, from imagination to destination
This is what we desired. Safety. This is what we needed from day one, our right, a biological need to grow and thrive as children. Safety. And what if we never knew this ? If all we knew was terror ? Or the constant fear of doubting yourself, because anything Continue Reading
Acceptance is a line in the mind
There are places I cannot go, places I have learned to stay out of. I treat my thinking like a child who needs boundaries, I coax, I tell, I nurture , I direct, I guide, I love. I am aware of the place I could go. The place that is Continue Reading
how to live with chronic pain
I live with chronic pain. Today I can accept this fact. For a long time I wanted to change my body through working relentlessly with a chiropractor, in the hope that the pain I experienced would somehow disappear, being healed by the readjustments. There have been amazing improvements over the Continue Reading