Love & Intimacy 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 Can Present Joy Trump Past Pain? “Hope-aholic” Free-Write https://healwritenow.com/can-present-joy-trump-past-pain-hope-aholic-free-write/ https://healwritenow.com/can-present-joy-trump-past-pain-hope-aholic-free-write/#respond Fri, 08 Jan 2016 15:10:24 +0000 http://healwritenow.com/?p=3678 I never regret it when I make time to write or do yoga. Never. So when my friend and mentor, Nancy Slonim Aronie, asked me to free-write – I did. I did so even though I was busy as hell and far too busy to write. I’m so grateful. So, I’m sharing how I do […]

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]]> https://healwritenow.com/can-present-joy-trump-past-pain-hope-aholic-free-write/feed/ 0 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 The Letter Every Survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse Should Read https://healwritenow.com/the-letter-every-survivor-of-childhood-sexual-abuse-should-read/ https://healwritenow.com/the-letter-every-survivor-of-childhood-sexual-abuse-should-read/#comments Thu, 27 Aug 2015 12:45:28 +0000 http://healwritenow.com/?p=3305 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 Your Lover You Survived Childhood Sexual Abuse. Her response was private. It both moved and surprised me. It challenged me and helped me realize how contrary her words […]

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