Author Archives: Skye

I may not look like it but I am in constant pain. I frequently experience occipital neuralgia (shooting nerve pains in my head), widespread neuropathy and myalgias, muscle spasms, arthritic pain in my spine, and hip issues. I take a decent amount of medication for it but that only reduces it to somewhat of aContinue reading “Movement Through Pain”

There are times it feels like triggers are everywhere,for instance my partner will say or do something seemingly innocuous but because of past trauma it sets off a reaction in my body; my heart races, I start to shake, sometimes I cry. The feeling that there’s a major emergency takes over and I freeze orContinue reading “Here A Trigger, There A Trigger, Everywhere A Trigger”

Miriam Webster defines family as: 1a: the basic unit in society traditionally consisting of two parents rearing their children. also: any of various social units differing from but regarded as equivalent to the traditional family, a single-parent family b: spouse and children. But what about the less clinical definition I put upon the word “family”, and the importance IContinue reading “Good Old Fashioned Family Values, Part I”

I feel like people may have gone too far the other way when it comes to shame, and believe me it takes a lot for me to say that as my family was very shame oriented to the point of harm. That’s not the kind of shame I’m talking about. Most things should not beContinue reading “Even Shame Has A Time And A Place”