In my previous post, I talked about the start of a new part of my healing journey: https://strengthinmystory.com/healing-or-better-off-broken/. This part of the journey has involved healing in action, while trying…
December is always an interesting month for me. Within this month falls not only my old wedding anniversary, but also the anniversary of my divorce being finalized. In fact, yesterday…
In my last blog post, I discussed a series of nightmares that I have been experiencing lately: https://strengthinmystory.com/nightmares-with-ptsd/. The series of nightmares surround the loss of my dog, Gatsby. Gatsby…
A common symptom of trauma and PTSD is nightmares. Oftentimes these scary dreams are recurrent and have similar patterns to them. When I first left my abusive relationship I had…
I work in STEAM Education for people of all ages. Something that we talk about when it comes to how people think and go about STEAM activities is process vs…
In my last post https://strengthinmystory.com/ex-mother-in-law-in-public/ I discussed how I saw my ex mother in law while I was out in public. This week I had the opportunity to talk with…
I had completely different plans for this post today, but a situation popped up this afternoon, that makes more sense to get off my chest. As I have talked about…
July is Chronic Illness Awareness Month. As such I wanted to share a little bit regarding my journey towards a diagnosis of POTS. This has been a diagnosis that I…