This week, I have been talking about the aftereffects of my mother-in-law’s death the week before Christmas. This has been a very long and very hard couple of weeks. Even if this holiday season had gone well, my baseline would have been struggling. I have so many negative associations with Christmas – so many traumas [...]
Archive for January, 2009
My Absolutely Insane Christmas “Holiday”: Feeling Like I am Going “Crazy”
Posted in PTSD, tagged christmas after child abuse, death during the holidays, grief, holidays after child abuse, surviving the holiday on January 2, 2009 | 8 Comments »
My Absolutely Insane Christmas “Holiday”: Building Your Own “Family”
Posted in Relationships, tagged christmas after child abuse, death during the holidays, grief, holidays after child abuse, surviving the holiday on January 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As I have been sharing this week, losing a loved one during the holidays is hard. I have also shared that my mother-in-law (MIL), who passed away the week before Christmas, and I were not close. Thankfully, birth and marriage are not the only two ways to build a family. If I had to rely [...]





