Resources and Support for Healing
The following is a guest post from Ellie Eaton, a member of our community. Ellie offered to share this wonderful piece of creative writing with us. You can also find this piece on the Survivor Creativity page. Scars by Ellie Eaton I fell this week in my classroom. I landed hard, and got a large …
I read an interesting article today on SF Gate. A study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and the Department of Veterans Affairs looked at biological stress indicators of police academy recruits before and after traumatic events and discovered a connection between waking cortisol levels and more stressful reactions to trauma: The study …
So I just heard from Dr. T . . . Yes. Really. (If you haven’t read my post from earlier this week called “The Sighting,” now would be a good time to catch up.) I guess he did see me at Whole Foods, because in today’s mail there was a note from him. I saw the …
Saw this wonderful quote from Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D., author of Kitchen Table Wisdom and My Grandfather’s Blessings (two books I adore), and thought I’d share: Wounding and healing are not opposites. They’re part of the same thing. It is our wounds that enable us to be compassionate with the wounds of others. It is …
So I just ran into Dr. T . . . Okay, not exactly face to face, but close enough. Closer than we’ve been for six freaking years, since before I filed the lawsuit. It happened at Whole Foods, just as I figured it would. I don’t normally go there much after 5:00 p.m., because that’s …
I was reading through an old issue of O, The Oprah Magazine the other day, and I came across this quote from Jeannette Walls (who apparently heard it from a friend). Thought I’d share… Secrets are like vampires. They suck the life out of you, but they can only survive in the darkness. Once they’re …