Tagged: trauma

Film Friday – What Dreams May Come

THIS MOVIE HITS SO CLOSE TO HOME Have you ever see the movie, What Dreams May Come? I was scanning through the tv channels looking for a movie or show to watch this morning...

Flashbacks

Flashbacks, in one word can bring you to your knees. Over the years I have been affected by three house fires. The first was November 1994, 34 degrees and it was raining. The day...

Twelve to Twenty-Four

I don’t know if I should chalk it up to stroke brain or just aging brain. Either way it is something my dogs will likely never forget. Our day started like any other… nothing...

One of his biggest fans

He was born August of 93 and she was born November 95 so a little over 2 years apart. All their lives I have been asked, Are they twins? No. Of course not. But...

Early morning

Go figure…. I couldn’t sleep. I had a bad dream last night. I think the incident with my son recently triggered something. My dream … what I remember is us going somewhere out to...

Mental Memory, Physical Moments

My husband and I were talking the other day about the things in my past. He has expressed on more than one occasion that if he could he would somehow erase, get rid of,...

This is true

This is so true. I look at people who are in my age group and see how some of them are and wonder just how and why they are the way they are. Now...

Not so easily triggered

You know I feel for folks who have gone through trauma but I am not the one that is so easily triggered by things. I don’t know if I have just become so numb...

Title? Think I forgot it too…

Through my years I have gone through things, done things, put myself in situations I shouldn’t have, gone places I shouldn’t have, yet some things I wish I could speak on. There are some...

You know it’s been 20 plus years since I was raped by someone I thought was a friend. To this day, nothing. Rape kit as far as I know backlogged. I wouldn’t know what...