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Shame: What it is and how it’s shown up for me
Shame: What it is and how it’s show up for me 📝 I actually had something to say about this but I can’t remember now. Anyways, honestly just since being in EMDR have I recognized how much shame I had. Not only that, but I didn’t even think the beliefs I held about my self… Read more
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H(a)unted By The Past
This was a drawing I did a few weeks into sessions with Dr. Sizer. I will get into the original interpretation, but first I wanted to explain it’s most prominent meaning to me now: It’s sort of a different manifestation of a drawing I also did that fall called “A Splash of Self”. I remember… Read more
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Bird Bites: Trauma & Transference
***Clip originally posted on YouTube in 2022 “Trauma—specifically recovered memories of trauma—and transference is a big theme in our documentary, and that’s because my relationship with my oldest niece, Evelyn, has held a big part in all of this. She’s been the subject of my worst nightmares, and her wellbeing the source of my anxiety.… Read more
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Night of the Screaming Skin
This was a drawing I did the day after August 29th, the night I had my first flashback. I was working at Ross at the time and scribbled it on the back of receipt paper in a desperate attempt to illustrate what that experience had felt like. When I had my first flashback, I was… Read more
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The Polarity of PTSD
This was a drawing I did the late fall of my junior year of college. I found I was having a lot of mood swings, not just then, but since I had ‘remembered’. I would alternate a lot between a deep sadness and a fiery anger. But the feelings themselves seemed to transcend those words.… Read more
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A Piece of prose about living with ptsd in your early 20’s: “I’ve Never Been to Iceland”
Context Hey guys! Bit of a depressing prose I wrote last night but I wanted to share (trigger warning for mention of sexual assault). For a really long time I’ve wondered how to capture what life with PTSD is like, more specifically, how it feels to navigate in your 20s. Spoiler alert: it’s kind of… Read more
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