We hear so much unnecessary instruction about what we are meant to do when we are hurting and attempting to heal. It’s not just the actual uninformed words we hear, but the rapid speed in which others say them. I wish others knew: To let go would be our greatest pleasure. To somehow hold the …
Inner Child
Over the past couple of weeks, I have watched social media feeds fight with one another for what is the right message that gives you the best results. I cannot relate to most of them. I enter social media daily with a desire to change the way we talk about the impacts of trauma. I …
I sat across from the staff psychologist at Love In Action, the most well known conversion therapy camp in the country, while he read a psychiatric evaluation he wrote from the forms I filled out. He followed up telling me that I did not register on the Meyers-Briggs assessment, and that scared him. He spoke …