***WARNING- mentions of abuse and sexual assault, please do not read if this will upset or trigger you***PTSD is a wild and complicated thing. It is a spectrum for sure, something not so easily shoved into a box. As a sexual assault survivor I learned really quickly that there was very little me and other… Continue reading Assault From All Perspectives.
The Two Month Mark!
We have made it to month 2 everyone! (Well, a little over) The ups and downs have been nothing short of a whiplash experience. For those of you who are new here, I have cut all contact with my mother. My narcissistic abuser. It has been 2 months without contact and man it is a surreal feeling.… Continue reading The Two Month Mark!
Going No Contact
There is no better and yet sadder way for me to start this new journey than to simultaneously discuss and introduce the complicated relationship, or lack there of, that I had with my mother. I am sitting here on a month and a day after making the decision that many children struggle with... Going no… Continue reading Going No Contact
Scary Story: Delilah: Readers Decide
Thump Thump... Thump Thump.. Delilah could hear her heart beating fast. She had been walking for hours. Reflecting on her day, she wondered how in the world she had managed to get this far... This morning Delilah woke up with the smell of the morning fog coming through the cracked window she left open last… Continue reading Scary Story: Delilah: Readers Decide
Co-Parenting with a Brick Wall
I never pretend that only mothers are good and patient. I know that there are just as many difficult and bad mothers out there as there are fathers. Often today, we are made to feel like we cannot complain or voice our frustration without the opinions of others or them running to the aide of… Continue reading Co-Parenting with a Brick Wall
Simply Miss Shay 