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Tag: Grief

  • Sometimes Trauma Healing Feels Like Falling Apart Again

    Sometimes Trauma Healing Feels Like Falling Apart Again

    Returning to old pain before you can heal it. A Gentle Note Before You Begin This article explores trauma recovery, emotional healing, nervous system regulation, grief, emotional numbness, dissociation, and the experience of feeling worse before feeling better. For some readers, these topics may stir tender emotions, memories, or bodily sensations. If that happens, please…

  • Why’d You Have to Chase the Light Somewhere I Can’t Go?

    Why’d You Have to Chase the Light Somewhere I Can’t Go?

    I could not save him. But his story changed the course of my life. Trigger Warning This essay contains discussions of severe childhood trauma, child abuse, domestic violence, emotional abuse, alcoholism, addiction, suicidal ideation, suicide, intergenerational trauma, self-destruction, PTSD, shame, grief, and trauma-related nervous system responses. It also includes descriptions of child endangerment, physical violence…