Free-Write Friday Night: Less Messy than a Paint Bar - Just as Fun Shake off the work week and sink into your creative center with other … [Read more...]
When Fear Bleeds into Bliss: Anxious Ones in Love
New love is the possibility of promise. Conversation, connection and co-created dreams. New love is the illusion of the right color paint which will … [Read more...]
My Happiness… It’s Not All Trauma All of the Time
In response to a Laura Davis weekly writing prompt. He stopped me for a moment to point out the heron. It stood like a sculpture in the shallow … [Read more...]
Write to Heal Trauma: Televised Interview by Suzette Martinez Standring with Christine Cissy White (me :)
https://youtu.be/Bl6J-vON2c4 … [Read more...]
Suzette Martinez Standring: Helping Spread the Writing is Healing Word to Survivors
It's so strange for this writer usually with the pen and asking the questions to be asked questions instead. It's new for me to be interviewed or to … [Read more...]
The Letter Every Survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse Should Read
I got this letter from my soul sister Kathy. It came a short while after an article I wrote was published in Elephant Journal entitled How to Tell … [Read more...]
A Few of My Favorite Quotes about Why Writing is Healing
I worship quotes, song lyrics, poems and all words gems of wisdom. They've been tree trunks I lean on, flotation devices I hang on when thrashing … [Read more...]
A Broke Trauma Survivor Needs….?
I've got a chance next month to speak with a large agency that serves 30,000 people who have in one or more ways been seriously impacted by trauma. … [Read more...]
On the Morning of My Would-Be Wedding Anniversary
We married ten years into our partnership and were together for nine more. I referred to him as my soul mate for most of my life. Today would be my … [Read more...]
Guest Post: Hope It Helps Someone
Much of the beauty of having this website is having conversations over the phone, in email and on Facebook. I now have the community I've craved most … [Read more...]