Jeannie was and is tenacious, but I don’t think there is really anything inside me that is not available to every human being. We are born t

When I include the word therapy in my blog titles, I hear crickets. Maybe I should just randomly include ‘God’ in the titles. Maybe that wou

As much as we want to deny that an inner child still lives inside of us and is the core of who we are, it is the absolute truth. When I snea

My story of trauma is not unique. Statistically one in four (or five) have experienced some type of sexual abuse—mostly as children. If you

For many abuse victims, there is a sense of knowing without knowing. Sometimes a memory floats around the edges of consciousness, but our de

Then, I felt it pass over me like a wave. It felt like I was just outside the place where the waves broke and crashed onto the sand. The emo

While my journey through therapy was undoubtedly one of the loneliest times of my life, I am grateful for my husband who became my ‘Therapy

Joy was always tricky because deep down, I knew there was something wrong. It wasn’t a spiritual problem; it was something much deeper. How

Sometimes, as I work on the pools, I shake my head and think, “It has come to this.” Yes, it has come to this. I am a Pool Lady with a Ph.D.

I really could have just pulled through to the other side and never told anyone—except for the fact that I was so tired of hiding. Living ou

I never knew I was dealing with shame. I knew I had excessive anxiety about the simplest of things like ordering food in a fast food restaur

The battle was worth it. The peace and freedom that I longed for is mine. It doesn’t look anything like I ever expected or hoped for, but it

I said, “I need to finish this conversation another time.” To my horror, he said, “No, we are going to finish this right now.”I was probably

I saw her stand up to give her testimony. Everything in me was screaming. "No! Don't do it!" But she did. In exquisite detail

(Courageous like a Lion! I am meeting many who have courageously gone to therapy and are now sharing their stories to help others. I will...

It was natural to think of PTSD being a primarily military problem—until I met my own trauma and PTSD symptoms face to face.

Some define forgiving as a choice. They say, “Choose to forgive and eventually you will feel it.” I say, you haven’t forgiven until you feel

With the words to a song about climbing out of the rubble drifting through my head, I entered the giraffe house at our local zoo. It had...

Staring at the large white Victorian house in front of me, the safety and comfort of my car seemed to wrap around my terrified body and...

I always believed I had no rhythm. It wasn’t true, but I believed it. Once, when speaking, I said rhythm had been bred out of me as a...