Tag: cptsd
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The Mercury Retrograde

April 21st-May 14th 2023 I’m sitting here trying to think of the right words to describe the last several weeks. The only thing that comes to mind is chaos, complete and utter fucking chaos. Every realm of my life seemed to be unbalanced, and it felt like drowning. Relationships fell apart, I lost my job,…
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april introspection

To anyone reading this, hello. I’ve taken a long hiatus from this blog due to personal discoveries over the last few months. Last year I started the process of releasing my foster care records. This has been a long and grueling ordeal with a lot of back and forth between social workers, state officials. and…
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Sustainable Living

When I was a child, one of my hyper-fixations was ‘doomsday prepping’. I would come home every day after school, throw my books down, and tune into an hour of planning for what was a predicted, life-threatening, catastrophic event. Well, the world hasn’t gone to shit yet and I feel a little more hopeful about…
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Power versus Pride

My whole life I’ve had this weird anger problem. On the playground little Tommy doesn’t know how to tie his shoes and begins to cry. The twinge of anger sits in my stomach and I am frustrated. “How does he not know how to tie his own shoes?” I ask myself. I am in high…