A co-worker sent me this yesterday and it just cracked me up:
Some people are like Slinkies …
Not really good for anything,
But they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs.
Hope you’re having a good weekend! 🙂
So nice to see such a large number of submissions, and even more, some new folks submitting for the first time! Thanks to everyone for getting the word out, and for sharing their posts with us. It truly shows me that there are many, many survivors finding their voices during this month of child abuse…
Yes last weekend was my 36th birthday. On the 4th, as a matter of fact. It made for a fun weekend, what with your normal 4th of July festivites on top of various birthday celebrations. It was rather nice to have a 3 day weekend, to spend time with family and friends, relax, celebrate, etc….
I spent quite a bit of time finding new links last night. I needed to update the Male Survivor Resources page because a whole bunch of pages that I had linked to were just plain gone. I hope you all find the new links as useful and informative as I did in the late night…
Pin In the big picture, the thing I know that I need to do is to be aware of when I’m in that mode and act accordingly. There can be some great benefits to hypervigilance and there can be some real downsides. If I’m aware of it, I can scan the environment as necessary without ignoring other important, but not dangerous, bits of information, and watch out for my own overreactions. I can consciously use the skill that I learned as a trauma survivor for my own good without it wrecking my day-to-day life or causing more anxiety.
It’s a tricky line to walk, and I’ll be the first to admit I don’t always do it so well.
It seems as though there are a number of people I am friends with, or people who’s websites I visit on a regular basis who are dealing with serious illness and coping with the possibility, if not probability, that someone they love will be passing away soon. At times like this I don’t believe there…
Pin Remember, this season can be a lot of things to different people. Some happy, some sad. Some will be adjusting to new traditions as their families change, some will be mourning the family they no longer have, and others will spend the day overseas away from their families, or alone with their own space. Whether…
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Oh boy….I needed that joke right now.
Stunned Silent
The past few days have been a bit of a blur…the thoughts in my mind forming as I lie in bed and try to sleep, yet when I get up in frustration to come down and write it all out,…