Literally and metaphorically: it’s been a year, today. One year since I was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive cancer I had never heard of. And a year of sickness, surgery, healing, and change, so much change…in and around me. It’s hard to know what to do on an anniversary like this. There’s a lot […]
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The Unmaking of Me | Part 2 How to Disappear Completely
In Part One of this series, I shared the spiritual abuse I endured over the course of years. Here in Part Two, I share some of my more acute symptoms of my CPTSD engendered by this abuse. Please know, however, that trauma does not affect everyone the same way. In his groundbreaking book on trauma, […]
When the Pastor Wants to Die: My Story of Hurt and Healing this Mental Health Awareness Month
I have started and stopped this piece more times than I can count. The words have been hard to come by and I’ve asked myself so many times if the vulnerability is worth the risk. It is. I’m done with the silence. I’m done with the fear of judgment. I’m done with the shame. And […]
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