Dating & Other Extreme Sports Archives - Heal Write Now for Trauma Survivors & Adults Abused as Children https://healwritenow.com Writing & Inspiration to Heal Trauma Sat, 25 Feb 2017 23:49:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.5 He Met Me Warm https://healwritenow.com/he-met-me-warm/ https://healwritenow.com/he-met-me-warm/#respond Sat, 25 Feb 2017 23:49:04 +0000 http://healwritenow.com/?p=4396 I forgot you were my best friend. I forgot I could say, “I’m tired, stressed and overwhelmed.” On the walk to your door I was building up a wall, resentments, expectations, my own fabricated failings I was defending myself against before an attack was even launched. My chest was tight, constricted and I could barely […]

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]]> https://healwritenow.com/he-met-me-warm/feed/ 0 The Joy of Sex with a Survivor https://healwritenow.com/the-joy-of-sex-with-a-survivor-or-throw-back-thursday-for-raw-recovery-writing/ https://healwritenow.com/the-joy-of-sex-with-a-survivor-or-throw-back-thursday-for-raw-recovery-writing/#comments Thu, 03 Mar 2016 16:48:20 +0000 http://healwritenow.com/?p=3833 The title is sarcastic in cast that isn’t obvious. I guess I should say that this doesn’t speak for all survivors all of the time – or even how I always feel or have felt. But, it was how I lived for years to decades when sex was almost never joy. Since I hate trigger […]

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]]> https://healwritenow.com/the-joy-of-sex-with-a-survivor-or-throw-back-thursday-for-raw-recovery-writing/feed/ 5 When Fear Bleeds into Bliss: Anxious Ones in Love https://healwritenow.com/when-melancholy-bleeds-into-bliss-anxious-ones-in-love/ https://healwritenow.com/when-melancholy-bleeds-into-bliss-anxious-ones-in-love/#respond Wed, 16 Sep 2015 15:28:58 +0000 http://healwritenow.com/?p=3332 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 prime and cover and freshen up a life. It can bring out charm and character hidden under drabness and shades left down too long. My love is the breeze, the night […]

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]]> https://healwritenow.com/when-melancholy-bleeds-into-bliss-anxious-ones-in-love/feed/ 0 My Happiness… It’s Not All Trauma All of the Time https://healwritenow.com/my-happiness-sometimes-i-have-to-force-myself-away-from-all-trauma-all-of-the-time/ https://healwritenow.com/my-happiness-sometimes-i-have-to-force-myself-away-from-all-trauma-all-of-the-time/#respond Thu, 10 Sep 2015 16:50:13 +0000 http://healwritenow.com/?p=3320 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 water. But it was the duck nearby that caught my eye flailing in the water. And the way he bent down to lift a blue jay feather from […]

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]]> https://healwritenow.com/my-happiness-sometimes-i-have-to-force-myself-away-from-all-trauma-all-of-the-time/feed/ 0 How Can Anyone Love Me with All of My Issues? https://healwritenow.com/how-can-anyone-love-me-with-all-of-my-issues/ https://healwritenow.com/how-can-anyone-love-me-with-all-of-my-issues/#respond Thu, 07 May 2015 18:16:29 +0000 http://healwritenow.com/?p=3061 That’s the question I asked. It’s the mold that grew on my moist heart and kept me from opening myself up. It’s what I worried about in my early 20s and why I avoided dating. I didn’t believe I could be me, who required a flow chart and three hours to explain my family or […]

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