As a childhood trauma survivor, I learned some years ago that we often hold our breath. It’s a way of not feeling when so much of what we feel is bad. It’s a way of disconnecting from our body because our bodies were hurt and abused. For me, it was due to incest, terror, humiliation… Continue reading Asphyxiating Toxic Cycles
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Mining During A Pandemic
For the past few years, I've focused on healing my relationship to money and of course the initial reason is never the reason. Money is a symptom of a self-love/care/esteem issues. It's meant to flow - currency after all - and we experience problems individually and as a society when it doesn't. In the drill… Continue reading Mining During A Pandemic
Tragedy, trauma, turning
I've been thinking about 9/11 and Covid-19 and the difference between the deaths of each of my parents. My father was gone within 24 hours from a heart attack and my mother had a long slow farewell until she died of congestive heart failure and stroke at 90 (my grandmother's was even longer one at… Continue reading Tragedy, trauma, turning
Maybe my CPTSD can help you in the time of COVID-19
I'm calm. That might be annoying if you're not during this pandemic. I'm trying to work out why I am and how that can help others who aren't. First, why am I calm? I grew up with a lot of abuse: incest, ridicule, public humiliation and so on, primarily from my mother. As a result,… Continue reading Maybe my CPTSD can help you in the time of COVID-19
This is your brain on trauma
The National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine is having an excellent free series on the brain and trauma that includes Peter Levine (Walking the Tiger, Healing Trauma, In An Unspoken Voice, and more) and Bessel van der Kolk (The Body Keeps the Score). Replays for the first session are today and tomorrow.… Continue reading This is your brain on trauma
Speak up
When the Trump administration began to separate children from parents at the border, I knew some of those children would be sexually abused. It's happened. Inevitably. And to a six-year-old girl. Any time you isolate children from the adults who love and protect them, disaster is inevitable. It doesn't matter if it's being done by… Continue reading Speak up
Diane Sherlock 
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