Jaded Savior Blog
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Mental Health Blogger, Content Creator, and Creative Writer. I write about trauma, mental health, neurodivergence, & identity. I love to connect with and support other Trauma survivors + Neurodivergent Creators!
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Talking about Mental Health struggles is some of the most vulnerable written work out on the internet. The energy, bravery, and vulnerability it takes to show up and share ones' most difficult mental struggles and disabilities is unbelievable. If you learn anything from this piece today, I hope it is that you start to search for mental health bloggers more on these platforms (namely Vocal+ and Medium). Take some time out of your week to go follow, subscribe, comment, and tip these writers. You have no idea how much it will mean to them.
By Jaded Savior Blog3 years ago in Psyche
Identity labels are everything for a person who was raised by a Narcissistic parent.
Growing up between two homes after the divorce was hard, but undoubtedly worse because my parents were Jekyll and Hyde. By the age of 5 I was going on weekend visitations with Charlie (my father) which, included wearing ripped jeans and playing outside in the dirt. Then I would come back home to Cathy (my mother) and her husband, in their neurotic and chaotic home of horrors. I was to be neat, quiet, and not a bother during the week, while I was encouraged to be a wild child on those weekends. Each parent reminding me of how much the other sucks and how I should really "be". It has taken me 15 years away from them (since I became legally estranged at 16) to finally find my identity as a woman, mother of three, and wife. I only owe the confusion and trauma to them, but I owe everything to the labels that I now feel fit "me".
By Jaded Savior Blog3 years ago in Families
Dear everyone who asks,. Top Story - June 2022.
DEAR EVERYONE WHO ASKS, I AM STILL NOT OKAY. I am not well, thanks. I am not feeling chatty to humor you guys either. I would love to answer your question truthfully, but then I would have to worry about your feelings. I would have to make apologies that I do not really mean. And I will not be able to hide my facial expressions either. Because the truth about me always seems to hurt everyone who is not good at empathy. What even is empathy these days, huh?
By Jaded Savior Blog4 years ago in Confessions
I am neurodivergent and no one ever knew.
CHILDHOOD TRAUMA IS NOT ALL I'VE SUFFERED FROM It has been right under my nose for my entire life but I have never had the right information to assess or understand myself. I grew up being passed between two abusive homes with three neglectful parents bullying and neglecting me - the only child under their care. I was not taught the basics of taking care of yourself, the home, or how to understand myself. I just existed and was shunned off to my room, where I focused on my special few interests for hours alone.
By Jaded Savior Blog4 years ago in Psyche
I lost interest in writing because I lost myself in grief.
In January I moved across the Country with my husband and kids to our very first apartment together. We spent 6 years prior living with his family and were buried deeply in work with our family run business. I had met my husband the semester I was finishing up College, while raising my 7 year old as a single young mother. Within the next several years I would end up cracking my trauma and mental health diagnosis wide open. But nothing has left me feeling so RAW as finally feeling SAFE inside of our own home.
By Jaded Savior Blog4 years ago in Psyche
Sitting with discomfort was a lesson for 2021.
SITTING WITH DISCOMFORT WAS A LESSON FOR 2021. I've been wanting to cut my hair for over 2 months now but I haven't. I used to get this feeling... you know... the feminine urge to chop your hair off after a breakup, a big change, a move, a friendship ending etc.
By Jaded Savior Blog4 years ago in Psyche
