From the Sister: What would you buy as a Christmas gift for someone who sexually assaulted you? A book? A stopwatch? Cyanide? A portfolio of the haunting images in your mind? I usually opted for Almond Roca and a John Wayne flick. He loved those! What should you talk about at the holiday meal with … Continue reading All I Want for Christmas…
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BS Book Review: The Body Keeps the Score
This book is a game changer! Put it in your Amazon cart and check the heck out! We highly recommend it for all thrivers, survivors, people who know someone who knows someone who’s been through trauma, combat veterans, friends of combat veterans, teachers, social workers, janitors, judges, librarians, doctors, grocery clerks, foster parents, biological parents, … Continue reading BS Book Review: The Body Keeps the Score
The Power of Purple
From the Brother: I was a young kid seated tensely in the backseat. My younger sister was to the left of me, silent, behind our mom who was pleading with our dad as she drove. The front seats filled with anger and shouting as we climbed the highway’s first big hill on our long drive … Continue reading The Power of Purple
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Here’s the deal with dating. Just kidding. I have no idea what the deal is. Tony and I joke endlessly about our collective ignorance around the whole affair. Every time I give another inane reason for letting someone go, he does his interpretation of the Seinfeld episode where Jerry breaks up with a beautiful woman … Continue reading Outdated
Somewhere Beyond Nowhere
The phrase “in the sticks” conjures images of open fields marked only by crooked old fence lines and weathered barns. You’d have to go passed that, down a washboard gravel road with a dust cloud trailing behind you, up and around the hairpin turn on a cliff drop off to the river below, beyond the last bit … Continue reading Somewhere Beyond Nowhere
BS Wisdom
Aha moments. Epiphanies. Game changers. Mind blowers. Whatever you want to call them. These are some of the guiding principles that have helped us create some sanity and sanctuary in our lives. Many we return to again and again for support. We offer them to you wherever you are in your healing. Yes, it really happened. … Continue reading BS Wisdom
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