To the Mom With the Traumatic Birth Experience
In 2016, I gave birth to my son after a challenging and stressful pregnancy. From the first month of my pregnancy, I suffered from a complication…
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Confessions of a Survivor & Medicated Mommy
As a childhood sexual abuse survivor, I didn’t have the easiest childhood. Don’t get me wrong, my entire childhood wasn’t bad. I…
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This Is What PTSD During Pregnancy Looks Like
This is what PTSD looks like at 13 weeks pregnant. New haircuts for my husband and myself, a new (to us) car, and a new house that we own. Here we…
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Their Eyes Have Seen What No Man Or Woman Should: We Must Thank Our Veterans
My father was an Army Helicopter pilot in Vietnam from December of 1968 to July of 1970. As a child I grew up listening to his stories from his…
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My On Going Battle with PTSD-I Showered with the Curtain Open Today
I don’t remember the exact moment when I lost the ability to handle everything emotionally; that instant when the invisible threads holding all of…
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Mommy’s Hidden Monster: Parenting with PTSD
Something about becoming a parent changes us, doesn’t it? Well, I suppose it would be more accurate to say everything about becoming a parent…
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September 12, 2009: Part 2 (Healing and Self Blame)
This is going to be a continuation to my original post, if you missed it or you want to read it click here. I left off in the back of my parents…
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10 Things Not to Say to Someone with an Invisible Illness
Having an invisible illness is hard. You look great on the outside, but on the inside you are a mess. There are so many illnesses that fall under the…
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My Struggle with PTSD
In November of 2006 we welcomed our first child (a son Jackson) into the world. We soon settled into our new normal of parenthood. I had been…
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