Adapting as Part of Surviving and Healing from Child Abuse

On my blog entry entitled Grieving Loss of Dysfunctional Friendship, a reader posted the following comment: In your blogs, and what I have heard from other survivors you often describe healing as a fight. And I have never understood this. To me, fighting is how I got through the abuse as and when it happened, [...]

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How Do I Know if I Have DID?

On my blog entry entitled What is Polyfragmented Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)?, a reader posted the following comment: I was diagnosed with DID but have a really hard time believing it and not thinking of myself as a huge liar and fake. I don’t ‘lose time’ like I hear that some people do. Also. I [...]

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Grieving Loss of Dysfunctional Friendship

It has been five days since a dysfunctional friendship of nine years ended. I won’t go into the details because why it ended really doesn’t matter. What matters is that a relationship I nurtured for almost a decade is over, and the real reason it ended was because it was dysfunctional. I have no question [...]

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Why Would I Not Want to Be Me?

I told a friend (one of my best friends who I met after therapy) what I blogged about yesterday, and her response was surprise that I would ever try to be anything but me. She was truly perplexed that I would think that I needed to be anything other than myself. I was perplexed that [...]

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Just Going to Be Me, and That is Going to Have to Be Enough

Summer officially ends this week for me as my son returns to school, and I could not be more relieved. No, I am not talking about needing a break from my kid – I am talking about reaching the milestone that ends this particular season of my life. This summer has been my most difficult [...]

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Sorry, folks

Hi, all. Believe it or not, I am STILL not over the sinus infection. I am on Round 2 of antibiotics, and I seem to be improving (finally) but far from 100%. My kid starts school later this week and is home until then, so I don’t have time to blog right now. I’ll try [...]

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Still recovering from sinus infection

Hi, all. I am still recovering from the sinus infection. I typically don’t turn the corner until I have been on antibiotics for 72 hours, which I will reach at lunchtime today. I’ll plan on starting back to blogging on Monday. ~ Faith

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Have a Sinus Infection

I have a sinus infection and am in too much pain to blog today. (It hurts to breathe.) I am on antibiotics, so I hope to feel up to blogging later in the week. ~ Faith

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Tough Time Returning from Trip

Over weekend, a friend and I went to the beach for a relaxing weekend without husbands or children. It’s been almost a year since I have gotten away without my child, but that was a different kind of weekend that had its own share of stresses. This was an incredibly relaxing weekend with the two [...]

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Hot Stone Massage as Part of Healing

I went to the beach this weekend with a friend. Both of us desperately needed a weekend “off” from being responsible for our families. It was amazing to do whatever we wanted whenever we wanted, even when what we wanted was to do nothing at all. My friend wanted to go get a massage. I [...]

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