PTSD/Complex PTSD Archives - Heal Write Now for Trauma Survivors & Adults Abused as Children https://healwritenow.com Writing & Inspiration to Heal Trauma Tue, 01 Feb 2022 17:32:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.5 My Free-Write Life, Medical Update, & Blizzard Photos (all over the place, like me) https://healwritenow.com/my-free-write-life-medical-update-blizzard-photos-all-over-the-place-like-me/ https://healwritenow.com/my-free-write-life-medical-update-blizzard-photos-all-over-the-place-like-me/#comments Sun, 30 Jan 2022 18:37:13 +0000 https://healwritenow.com/?p=5387 I had the chance to do three free-writing sessions in the last week. Free-writing offers me an opportunity to be prompted by some brand new idea. It provokes writing I don’t always expect and helps me consider and reflect on the present (and the past) in new ways. I love doing it in community as […]

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]]> https://healwritenow.com/my-free-write-life-medical-update-blizzard-photos-all-over-the-place-like-me/feed/ 6 Guided Imagery Gift https://healwritenow.com/guided-imagery-gift/ https://healwritenow.com/guided-imagery-gift/#respond Sat, 13 Jun 2020 21:18:15 +0000 https://healwritenow.com/?p=5053 Healing the helpers.

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]]> https://healwritenow.com/guided-imagery-gift/feed/ 0 Permission to be human in a pandemic, please https://healwritenow.com/permission-to-be-human-in-a-pandemic-please/ https://healwritenow.com/permission-to-be-human-in-a-pandemic-please/#respond Mon, 30 Mar 2020 12:41:03 +0000 https://healwritenow.com/?p=5046 I have a single mom friend who is caring for a baby, a 16-year old, and working full-time. Her name is Heidi. This is the same friend, with an ACE score of 10, written about here a few years ago. This is what she posted on Facebook (and gave me permission to share) the day after Governor […]

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]]> https://healwritenow.com/permission-to-be-human-in-a-pandemic-please/feed/ 0 Miss Diagnosed: Patient 3155175 https://healwritenow.com/miss-diagnosed-patient-3155175%ef%bb%bf/ https://healwritenow.com/miss-diagnosed-patient-3155175%ef%bb%bf/#comments Mon, 16 Sep 2019 20:26:34 +0000 https://healwritenow.com/?p=5024 It’s ovarian cancer awareness month. I didn’t always know that, but I know it now.  I have cancer.  Ovarian. Advanced.  I have advanced ovarian cancer.  It’s hard to put those words together. It’s been two weeks and five days, and that’s only starting to feel real.  What I want is to believe I’m still in […]

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]]> https://healwritenow.com/miss-diagnosed-patient-3155175%ef%bb%bf/feed/ 5 Survivor-Led or Survivor Porn? https://healwritenow.com/survivor-led-or-survivor-porn/ https://healwritenow.com/survivor-led-or-survivor-porn/#respond Thu, 18 Jul 2019 14:59:28 +0000 https://healwritenow.com/?p=4973 I was debriefing with my friend (Robin Cogan, aka the relentless school nurse) about the first-ever hearing on childhood trauma last week by the Committee on Oversight and Reform (viewable here). Robin mentioned how powerful the survivor testimony was, written about here by Elizabeth Prewitt, and I wanted to celebrate and cheer. But I kept […]

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