Running a fever

I am running a fever today. I have a doctor’s appointment in the morning. ~ Faith

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Taking a sick day

Hi, all. I have been sick since Wednesday and have been living in my bed since Thursday. It’s just a head cold, but it’s a doozy. My kid brought it home, and hub now has it, too. :0( I don’t have the energy to blog yet, so I am taking a sick day. Don’t worry [...]

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Losing My Fear of Death

Yesterday, I shared how I overcame my fear of flying. That experience ran so much deeper than making plane trips less stressful – it actually helped me conquer my fear of death. So much of the trauma in my childhood centered around the fear of death. I was forced to kill a kitten. I saw [...]

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How I Overcame My Fear of Flying

On my blog entry entitled Healing Metaphor: Riding on an Airplane, a reader posted the following comment: With all deference to your metaphor (it was wonderful, btw!), as someone with a crippling phobia of flying, I am asking you to please do a blog post soon on how you overcame this fear. ~ Karen I [...]

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Healing Metaphor: Riding on an Airplane

I recently rode on an airplane when I took my kid to visit Hogsmeade (Harry Potter’s city) in Orlando, FL. I thoroughly enjoyed the flight. The reason this is significant is because I used to have a phobia of flying – I mean a really serious fear of flying. I would obsess over any plane [...]

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Dancing in the Rain

I recently encountered a saying that struck a chord with me: Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain. ~ Author Unknown If I waited for the storm to pass, I would never dance. I think this is true for just about anyone with a history [...]

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Needing Quiet Social Time

As I shared here and here, I mutually ended a nine-year dysfunctional friendship in August of 2011. I wrote about missing the friend but not the friendship here. Grieving that loss has gotten easier. There are still aspects I miss, but it gets easier every day. Over the weekend, I pinpointed what I miss the [...]

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How Do You Measure Your Healing From Child Abuse?

Yesterday, I began exploring the question of how to measure healing from child abuse. I focused on how my sister and I endured similar abuses but reacted very differently. Most people (from an outwardly American measure) would call me the “successful” one because I have had more stability in my life (financial, marital, etc.). However, [...]

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Different Reactions to Similar Abuses

On my blog entry entitled Why Do Some Child Abuse Survivors Fare Better than Others?, a reader posted the following comment: This does lead potentially to more interesting questions such as how do each of us measure our healing. I think for me freedom and joy would be key, as they were most stolen. ~ [...]

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How Do You Heal When You Cannot Remember Due to Drugs?

Yesterday, I talked about healing from abuse you don’t remember due to being very young when it happened here. Today, I will address healing abuse you don’t remember due to having been drugged when it happened. I, myself, was drugged as part of my abuse. I know this through connecting the dots of my flashbacks, [...]

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