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A couple years ago I was diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) caused by a violent childhood. This is my journey, not to 'normal' but to 'ME.'

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  • Johnny Appleseed

    Posted on Saturday November 17th, 2007 at 09:49 in foot, r., johnny appleseed, american folklore

    While I'm arghing over foot issues and how I'm going to shower, I remembered this:American folktales were big in my childhood. It was one of the items in our curriculum that my mother was good at and reinforced at home. Fables. We learned about Ba...

  • Who Will Save Me?

    Posted on Wednesday July 25th, 2007 at 08:00 in mother, power, savior, r.

    photo from http://churchoutlet.comWhen I was talking about R. with my therapist the other day she brought up something interesting – that R. had said she saved me just like my mother did. That hadn’t occurred to me before. In fact, I forgot th...

  • Stories of Friendship - R. (Part 2)

    Posted on Tuesday July 24th, 2007 at 08:14 in friendship, r.

    "Friendship quilt" from http://static.howstuffworks.com The thing that began to bug me about R. was that she was sexual, and I was not. While we talked of being chaste and she was a ‘good catholic girl’ she’d always come back with stories of a...

  • Stories of Friendship - R. (Part 1)

    Posted on Monday July 23rd, 2007 at 08:08 in friendship, italian, twisted ankle, r.

    Picture from http://www.fairfield.eduI forget how we met. Oh wait, Biology, my freshman year. We were in the same class. In my high school it was mixed ages in some classes, since there wasn’t much of a sequence to the sciences. She is older than...