Tag: ptsd
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Mark Your Calendars for the Paper Birds Premiere!
Excited to share that my documentary, Paper Birds, will be premiering at Millersville University next month! I’ll have more information to share soon, but in the meantime, wanted to put this “save the date” flier out there. Also planning on holding a post-screening panel/Q&A, as well as inviting relevant organizations and groups to table at…
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The Paper Birds Official Trailer Is Here!
Crossing the Finish Line At long last, the official trailer for Paper Birds is here! I want to start by giving a huge thanks to Jordan Graff, my editor, for putting this together. As you may know, this thing has been nearly half a decade in the making, and that’s if you don’t count its origin in…
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It’s Been Awhile: Vlog 26
Yapping Into The Void Back with a vlog…it’s been awhile! Wanted to share some candid thoughts after watching the cut of Paper Birds for my editor, and touch on how I feel approaching the 5th anniversary of my first flashback on August 29th, 2020. If anyone would like to see the current cut of the…
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A Metaphor for Phase Three of Trauma Healing
Introducing the ‘Life Binder’ Chat, I have more reflections, but this will be two posts so sorry in advance: So as I established, I realize now I’m solidly in phase three of Judith Herman’s “Trauma & Recovery” model. The clearing. The integration. The reconnection. Well, I’ve been trying to step into that in a few…
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That Fall, Five Years On: The Summer Before Everything Changed
Summer 2020: Creative, Colorful, Curious So I won’t be able to line this up perfectly as I’ll be abroad the first two weeks of September, but seeing as we’re nearing the five year anniversary of when this whole story began, I thought maybe I’d document that fall in real time, half a decade on. This…
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The Reason Paper Birds Exists
“Look for the Helpers” I’ve wanted to post something like this for a while, and likely will again in the future when the film is officially released. These are a few comments left by strangers regarding the film (these were all posted publicly but thought I’d blur out the usernames anyway). I’ve also received a number of…
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Standing In the Clearing: Life After Healing Trauma
A couple months, ago my nieces and I built a little fort in the brush behind my house, or started to, rather. I spent a lot of time in the woods growing up—and still do, though the trail in my neighborhood was ruined by a storm about a year ago. This was one of my…
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My Response to “Was Working on Paper Birds Healing?”
A Million Layers Between Two Roles Early on in the weekend, I was in full Paper Birds mode—emailing my editor, corresponding with Jim, combing through transcripts–and, consequently, it brought up a unique inner tension I’ve encountered a few times while working on this piece. Since it’s sort of an abstract look ‘behind the scenes’, I…
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To be Soft Is To Be Brave
“No one will ever know the violence it took to become this gentle” This was originally posted to the Paper Birds Instagram on July 16th: Some more stream of consciousness since people seem to be connecting with these more than I thought. This will also be a bit of an extension of my post from…
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Reflections on Healing
The Beauty of Still Being Here This was originally posted to the Paper Birds Instagram on July 23rd: This felt very Paper Birds coded. Well, maybe not the film per say, but the journey it was inspired by. It’s such a weirdly beautiful thing to be alive at 24 when I didn’t even think I’d…
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