“Trauma always makes grief more complicated. If you have been in this position you will find that you will need to heal the memory of and your feelings about the actual trauma first…and then work through grief later. The trauma is going to demand your attention. It’s a whole different kind of grief. You may…

What I’ve been feeling the past few weeks is frustration, anger and struggling to find strength within myself. Try to be strong and put myself out there in public alone without fear but the fear bites me and anxiety almost cripples me. I’ve been experiencing an increase in panic attacks. Been stressed and wanting to…

I met with my therapist today and we were talking about trauma and exploring my early childhood. I was an only child and growing up I always had a cat and for me, that cat was my babysitter and sister and best friend, not just a pet. Her name was Shadow and she would follow…

In Paradise Lost, John Milton wrote, “Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.” This is what I have learned about what living with post-traumatic stress disorder with trauma is like. Trauma is very tricky and the body remembers things that you very well may not. I’ve been going…

I’ve been laying awake trying to sort through certain things and one of those things is what I want to accomplish with the Luna Projects. I first want to shed light on a dark situation, domestic violence for I am a domestic violence survivor. I was with a narcissist that controlled who I saw, how…

Joe and I gathered our clothes to do laundry and went to the facility at our complex. As we arrived it looked like this person stopped to get the mail or for speed bump so we pulled into a spot further away. The car proceeded towards us and then made a maneuver back into the…