• Giving Yourself Grace

    When my anxiety is in overdrive, it becomes extremely difficult for me to perform tasks due to the constant fear that I have done – or will do – something wrong. I actively seek out validation to prove that I’m incorrect or incapable, reading and interpreting signs that aren’t truly there. I assume that most

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  • If I were to draw a picture of what it feels like moving through life with CPTSD, it would be the image of a person walking on a balance beam that is resting on a ship that is sailing across the ocean. To experience it, the waves below are of varying sizes. Sometimes they rock

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  • Little Me/Selective Mutism

    I was a complete dorky nerd, and I have carried that identity with me as an adult. I gravitate toward the strange and fringe, thanks to a combination of general curiosity and outsider feelings. If there’s a core component to my personality that I’ve held since childhood, it would be the strong desire to be

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  • Gotta Start Somewhere

    This blog is basically something that I’ve considered, started and stopped at many points in my life. I’ve always been torn between the desire to share my experience – hoping that it will help someone else, and feeling like writing about myself is just the most annoying, self-indulgent thing to do. With that said, I

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