For this week’s edition of ‘noticing’ – Quiet the noise. Stop the zoom. Rest the juggle. Notice. Sense. Listen.What word comes to your mind?Now – get into that word to seek what it is offering. (Often the depth and significance
Part 2 of 2 of “The Overwhelm” Welp. That occasion is today…I’m smack-dab in overwhelming overwhelm. The headspace I’ve been in this week has been ROUGH. I truly feel like I’m living in the
Part 1 of 2 of “The Overwhelm” So, I have this trick, this coping skill, that has been very impactful in helping clients when the overwhelm overwhelms. And on occasion I’ve used it myself.
I love speaking in pictures. I feel like it helps communicate to a depth where sometimes words fall short. It helps me process and purpose the hardest parts of my story or illuminate the
Stormy. Malevolent clouds loom, threatening devour.Fragile. Cracked glass on the verge of shatter.Sharp. A porcupine defense against attack.Combative. Landmines active and set.Restless. Electric zzap snapp pop.This. This is trauma survived.The triggers, known and unknown.Lymbic. Primitive.
“Cancer is not just six letters connected to make a word.” @ThePurposedSailor ‘Cancer’ is so common a word that its value really seems to be only in the letters that are connected to make
“Survivorship is an uncharted ocean, a course difficult to measure where progress is elusive and stability impossible. Where some days are calm but most are choppy and unpredictable, causing me to constantly have to
Alice, walking square by square on her way to the Eighth one (and going by railway in the Fourth with a paper man, a Goat and a Beetle) meets a Gnat the size of
Today, while I’m not feeling well and exhausted, I said yes to driving an hour and a half for a 7th grade basketball game. Of course I would have said yes no matter what and