Caring Matters
All of us are born with an instinctive self-protective mechanism called neuroception. Without thinking, we can quickly access a situation/ person and decide if it is safe to engage or not. However, this natural ability [Read More]
.. Healing from trauma means growing into a new person. The most significant change one feels when one is on the road to recovery is the feeling of being alive in the present. The ability [Read More]
I’ve spent most of my life in a numbed state. Too grief-stricken to feel anything. Mourning for losses that have no names. The deep sadness of losing my mother was literally like a black cloud [Read More]
The first step to recovery from childhood trauma is acknowledging the hurts and feeling the pain. Being emotionally, physically, or sexually abused is unbearable for a child. When no resolution is in sight, the only [Read More]
I’m so lonely (so lonely) I’m Mr. Lonely (Mr. Lonely) I have nobody (I have nobody) To call my own (to call my own) Akon’s song so aptly expresses the anguish of the feeling. The [Read More]
Groping, touching, brushing, lewd comments, unwanted glances, and attention are not something women have to only deal with on the street, at school/college, at their jobs, or in the park. Sadly, for many of us, [Read More]
The pain is so intense that you can actually feel a knife in your heart. You feel like pulling out your hair. You want to stab into something. Many a time to release the pain [Read More]
Being sexually abused is being violated in the most private part of our bodies and psyche. Something which is so personal and precious has been forcefully taken by a bully who knows he can get [Read More]
One is always shocked at the sudden death of a young person. More so, when a person chooses to end his/her own life. Why People Commit Suicide? Suicide is an extreme solution to seemingly insurmountable problems. [Read More]
After years of being so tuned to every nuance, tone, word, and action of others, I am slowly beginning to feel free of the expectations of others. I am no longer hypervigilant. I don’t feel [Read More]