Trigger warning self harm and suicidal ideation When the thoughts in your head are mostly painful, negative self talk, anxiety inducing, and sprinkled with intrusive images, it's past time to seek a good therapist. Here is my therapy journey, and what I've gained from it. What I've learned from having over 10 therapist in multiple states, and what I did once I graduated from therapy. At the age of 13 my mom caught me self harming and finally found out I was regularly staring

The Very Good Case For Journaling Having PTSD your mind can be a very loud place, you can feel disconnected from your body, and your emotions can feel like you live on a constant rollercoaster. To reclaim your sanity, and connection to yourself, there are few things that can help you heal better than journaling. Putting your thoughts on paper can remove them from the replay loop in your head. Writing what you are feeling makes your emotions more clear to you which in turn ma

Like The Barbie Movie Said, "Being a woman is literally impossible!" Having the confidence to love your body is complicated for most women. Society and pop culture sell us an idea of the perfect woman and as long as we spend every last dime, suffer through painful treatments, or even have possibly life threatening surgery, then we will be beautiful and worth loving. All that is the uphill battle we are fighting as women. After being assulted it can make things even worse or

What is "Triggered" When triggered you re-live in some way, that moment or moments of being abused or assaulted. Your body is convinced that you are in danger and goes into fight, flight, freeze, or fawn mode. Not to be condicending but to be thurough. Fighting meaning you are fighting for your life. Flight running for your life. Freeze being paralyzed with fear. Finally fawn is when you are appeasing the person threatening you in order to survive. What Being Triggered Feel

Every morning I wake up and the waterfall of thoughts begin. While I was in the thick of my worst days the first thoughts would immidiately set my heart racing. "The world hates women." "How am I going to protect your daughters from men?" "I wish I wasn't awake." Some days I am able to challenge those thoughts and put my train of thought on a different path. Somedays I just can't seem to get out of it. PTSD thinking can feel like an all consuming one way track that has no alt