Music Comforts Pain, Panic and Fear When you're hurting, or stressing, or panicking a bit. When your breath is hard to find. When your heart hurts. When your lungs are exhausted. When your body is giving out. When your life feels at risk of slipping away.... When you can't define your pain, or even find your pain, but it's there, and it doesn't go away. It's just everywhere. All those times when your … [Read more...]
When the Painful Past is the Painful Present
Hello, how are you today? Are you reading from your painful past, or are you here, in a painful present? Does it feel like the here-and-now? Or the way back when? Or is Then the same as Now? I've been thinking about this topic of Past vs Present for awhile now. I know I have written about time distortion, memory recall, flashbacks, body memories, trauma processing and all those things before. (Please … [Read more...]
A Painful Mother’s Day – the Cards Not Written
Last week, I couldn’t find the words to write about the struggles that so many dissociative survivors have on Mother’s Day. Sometimes, Mother's Day is a very painful day. In response to that, a dissociative survivor emailed me, and has given me permission to post their thoughts about the painful side of Mother’s Day. Maybe you will relate to these difficult thoughts and painful feelings. Every … [Read more...]
Let Sleeping Dogs Lie – or not?!
Let sleeping dogs lie…. We’ve all heard the phrase said over and over. It means to leave something the way it is because disturbing it would cause more trouble or additional complications. Fine, fine, fine. Maybe for today, I’ll not address the troublemakers in life. Heaven knows, I’ve run into more than enough of my fair share of dogs that lie…. But ok, I’ll respect the wisdom of the phrase and for now, I … [Read more...]
With Darkness and Depression, is there Anything to be Thankful For?
Thanksgiving is the time to be thankful for what we have, for the people in our lives, for the food and shelter that we have, and for the lives we have had. It is meant to be a good holiday, with time to relax, watch the Macy’s Day parade, cheer for our favorite football team, have an incredible meal, go to movies, chatter with close friends and family, enjoy freedom and all the goodness of … [Read more...]