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  • Ease

    When my therapist first suggested the idea of group therapy for me, I was skeptical to say the least. I had a hard enough time in my own company, with my own issues, I wasn’t sure how I was going to enjoy or interact with others and theirs. Much like with the other aspects of…

  • Sideways

    Sometimes, even with the best doctors, and the best teams things go sideways. As far as I can tell the reason for this? We are all humans, and as my nephew once said when he was three or four “We are just made of meat.” Sometimes the truest words come out of the mouths of…

  • Scars

    When I was in elementary school, we had an indoor swimming pool. A few times a week our classes would get to put on our bathing suits in the middle of the school day and take swimming lessons from our PE teachers. I was never a particularly modest child, in fact it was all my…

  • What now?

    Ten days have passed since my family and I had the first of what I now know will be many appointments with my new specialist. My biggest worry about the appointment was that having all of us present would be overkill, that this appointment wouldn’t be all I had made it to be in my…

  • My People : Part 1

    One of the lessons that was hardest for me to get in therapy, was that there is good in all situations. This is a hard thing to believe for someone who has lived a life that has had more than its share of trauma and hard times. It is hard for a brain with C-PTSD…

  • Aunt Mo

    Everything I have said yes to over the last 15 years has been about having more years with my nephews. From the pacemakers, to the ICD, every heart cath, stent ballooning, ER trip, device shock, every test, every blood draw, every new medication, and every side effect has been in the pursuit of more time.

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