My partner held me last night as PTSD racked my body. I awoke in the middle of the night sobbing. There were no thoughts. No remembered...

"Perfectionism is not a way to avoid shame. Perfectionism is a form of shame. Where we struggle with perfectionism, we struggle with...

Becoming the Hero, Written Series Once a month I do an art workshop at the local domestic and sexual violence crisis center. It is the...

Becoming the Hero, Written Series Do you know what it's like not to own your own body? To have family members and a family friend violate...

Becoming the Hero, Written Series I remember my doodles from childhood and wish beyond almost anything that I still had some of them. My...

PTSD has hit hard within the last week or so. I'm not ready to paint. Sometimes when an episode hits I can't paint. Painting seems to be...

Poetry is not my forte. However, while trying to heal and process my experiences, sometimes poem like strings of words are what comes...

My friend says my paintings scare her. My response: "How do you think they make me feel? I live with this." *TRIGGER WARNING. Sexual...

There's a line from the movie Shrek that has stuck with me from my first viewing. Probably because everyone quoted it over and over....

"If you have been brutally broken, but still have the courage to be gentle with others then you deserve a love deeper than the ocean...

"You need to grow thicker skin." Oh, the amount of times I've heard that. It's just about the most insensitive, yet necessary, advice out...