And I keep hearing my dad's voice "It's just all in your head!" A phrase I often heard when I wasn't feeling well....

If anger consisted of gooey globs, I'd be flinging it at quite a number of people right now. And...I guess I wasn't expecting to receive s

Pretty gruesome, isn't it? I don't know what color pain is but I know how it feels. It is heavy. It hurts. Sometimes...

Where does this pressure come from? From people's good intentions. Friends implying their opinions. My own internal dialogue from...

Aggression dressed up in a pretty package is like poison in a relationship. We may be unaware of our passive aggression but we are still...

When you trust someone and they "flip" on you as in saying one thing and then changing it later it undermines and cripples your trust...

It's hard to ask for help. Especially when one isn't sure what they need.

See this beautiful young girl? Her name is Careful Protector. She is feeling shy and would rather be hiding amongst the trees instead of...

I didn't know what to expect. I didn't want to talk about whatever came up because this was an area I hated as well as tried to...

I didn't have much to spare. I put in spare change that I had but it wasn't much more than half full. I wanted to give more but I didn't...

TRIGGER WARNING: Animal Abuse Preface: My cat for which I want to write this tribute showed up at my door at 11:30 on a Sunday night. I...

(I wrote this, not to shame those who I may be talking about, but rather to portray as best I can the inner struggles that are caused by...

A while ago I had some people in my life that were not willing to listen to what I had to say. They tried to get me to do things I wasnt...

Ok, friends, if you really want to hurt me, I'm going to give you some tips...but most of you have been kind enough that I don't think...

I never dreamed I'd stop going to church. Ever since I began to grow in my relationship with Jesus I wanted to know the truth and I...

This painting is still wet just like my heart is still raw from my therapist triggering me in my last session. The title of this painting...

I'm being very vulnerable here...please be kind with your comments... I about want to say this and mean it except it's not my mind...it's...

Today was a normal day. A normal day of being triggered. Today was one that doesn't happen very often. I was at work. I heard a baby...

I knew somewhere that name was connected to a memory in the past but I couldn't think how or where...

Tonight I realized how much spiritual abuse is affecting me. It started with me searching the internet for ways to get back into reading...