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Category Archives: Trauma
Cosby and Quaaludes
I’m all over this one. I knew that women were telling the truth. There were too many of them for it to be a hoax. Bill Cosby is a molester. A rapist. A criminal – he should be put in … Continue reading
Posted in Observations, Outrage, Silence/Collusion, Trauma, violation
Tagged Bill Cosby, quaaludes, rape, speaking out
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On Being Molested – Part 5
First, a totally irrelevant point – is it really July? Impossible – it was just March. Time really does fly…even if you’re not having fun. I continue to ponder my parts these days, as we enter into the month that … Continue reading
Posted in Grieving, Healing, Incest, Poems, Trauma
Tagged Arms Akimbo, Arms Akimbo: A Journey of Healing, July, parts, suicidality, talking to the parts, trauma
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On Being Molested – Part 4
How did being molested at an early age change me, I wonder? Because I don’t know who I was, or who I was meant to be, or who I might have been. All that can never be discovered or retrieved, … Continue reading
Posted in Grieving, Healing, Incest, Outrage, Poems, Trauma
Tagged Arms Akimbo: A Journey of Healing, incest, incest survivor, Molested, parts, rage, warrior
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On Being Molested, Part 3
On hard days, I still talk to my different parts. Most of the conversations happen late at night, when I can’t sleep. When ghosts try to enter the inner sanctum. When I am most vulnerable – at my most tired. … Continue reading
On Being Molested, Part 2
The aftershocks of being molested as a young child can feel unending.They can come fast and furious, or wait for months before the ground again gives way in an earthquake of epic proportions. They hit hard, and I fall hard. … Continue reading
Posted in Grieving, Healing, Incest, Trauma
Tagged Arms Akimbo, child sexual abuse, EMDR, flashbacks, healing, incest, incest survivor, Molested, PTSD, survivor, trauma
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Burying the Ghosts of Trauma
As I have worked my way through the worst of my trauma – the debilitating, breath-stopping, function-sucking part – I have tried to buried my father’s ghost hundreds of times, with varying degrees of success. In retrospect, it amazes me … Continue reading
Posted in Grieving, Healing, Incest, Poems, Trauma, violation
Tagged Burial, child sexual abuse, childhood, exorcism, ghosts, sarcophagus, six feet under
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On Being Molested
How’s that for a title? Over the past decade, so much of my life has been about healing. About learning how to trust after a lifetime (really, truly – a lifetime) spent in the trust abyss. I have done it … Continue reading
Posted in Grieving, Healing, Incest, Poems, Trauma, violation
Tagged eulogy, incest, incest survivor, Molested, Mourner's Kaddish, mourning
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Healing – Day 13: Choice Choices
Let me start off by apologizing in advance to those of you who are vegetarians or vegans. Or who don’t eat red meat. Tonight is a night for meat as metaphor. I’m sorry – it’s where my ping pong brain … Continue reading
Posted in Healing, Jewish, Trauma
Tagged Choice choices, choices, choicest choice, detritus, father, lack of trust, MixMaster, ping pong brain, savor, trim the fat, trust
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Healing – Day 11: Einstein Was Right On Time
Let me first say that I know nothing about physics. Never took a class in it. What I think I understand from Einstein’s theory is that time and space are relative – if you’re driving your car at the same … Continue reading
Posted in Healing, Trauma
Tagged breathing, Einstein, EMDR, Exploratorium, healing, relativity, Tactile Dome, time, trauma
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