healing
How to heal fully and properly.
Complex Reality
Complex PTSD come with Suicidal Thoughts: Complex PTSD affects how you see yourself, relate to the world and others around you. As well as hindering your ability to form relationships, regulating emotions and common feeling of shame, guilt and failure relating to the traumatic event. Complex PTSD is exactly that, complex.
By Merichel Sanchez6 years ago in Motivation
It’s Time
It’s Time… We’ve been dumbing down and numbing out for long enough. It’s time for stepping up, and standing up once and for all. How can we break the cycles if we blindly accept them without a thought? How can we make changes if we won’t even acknowledge them?
By "Serenity Mask" 6 years ago in Motivation
Dealing with Trauma
Trauma - A deeply depressing or disturbing experience Dealing with trauma is a job on its own. For black and brown folk especially in the inner cities, trauma is almost a norm. And it comes in a variety of forms. We are all subjected to some type of traumatic experience at a young age. I'm speaking generally If you didn't experience something traumatic then kudos to you. However, for inner-city youth, Trauma is like breathing. So many of us experience it so frequently we eventually become numb to it.
By Adonis Richards6 years ago in Motivation
Imperfectly perfect painting
So, this painting took me over a year to paint. And I sincerely thought it was awful, sad, dark and misunderstanding to others. How could I think such a thing, to assume what others would feel about my art. I found it absolutely beautiful and that should really be all that matters. There’s no wrong way to create art. I was judging myself just as I do when I look in the mirror every morning. This next part of my writing I use beautiful words, in such a way it is exactly what I felt and thought when I took this picture of my unique painting. I’m often the worst critic of myself. I loved painting this, I enjoyed it and it made me happy. Then to judge it so harshly just as I judge myself.
By Samantha Louise6 years ago in Motivation
What Is Left Unspoken.
You will always have one foot in and out no matter how much you want to have both in as long as you’re not able to be completely honest with them or at least with your mom. Because you so desperately want things to be all good again but a part of you feels like you’re hiding this huge part of what happened to you and why you did the things you did but you don’t want to hurt them by telling them. While at the same time it’s eating you alive especially the more time you spend with them and think about them.
By M F6 years ago in Motivation
Personal Experience
Who Am I? Born in Saigon (now called Ho Chi Minh City) during the Vietnam War in 1973, I was three months old when a woman named Phuc Tran adopted me. Part Vietnamese and part an unknown ethnicity, I was a “half-breed”—that’s what the Vietnamese people called me. I didn’t have blue eyes or blond hair, but I had a Caucasian nose and eyes as well as freckles. For eleven years, I spent my early childhood in Vietnam; the culture, traditions, values, and beliefs strongly influenced me.
By Margaret Tran6 years ago in Motivation
Clito sunshine
Nature has a great way of reminding us of its simple pleasures! This photo was taken on Clito Road in Spring Valley, VA—high up in the hills of Appalachia. There is no filter used. Back then, the only filters ever used were by professional photographers. The intensity of the sun when I pointed my old Samsung flip phone at it back in the early 2000’s basically blocked out most of the color except for the pink halo in the sky. You can’t tell from looking at the picture, but it was one of those hot summer days where the sky was so clear it was almost translucent. The hills and grass were also green, not gray as they appear in this photo. That doesn’t mean the content of the photo doesn’t point towards greener pastures and bluer skies, though.
By Mary Johnson6 years ago in Motivation
My Disappearing Act
Has your heart ever been so heavy and broken? Have you been through so much that you just become so drained and lost? That you are searching for your identity. I am going through that now. I decided to be like a magician and do a disappearing act and delete all social media platforms. Become a ghost per se. As a writer that is something hard to do; when my doctor laid me off work and writing is my life now, other than my son. I am healing from so much that I have to disappear to find me.
By Scarlett Price6 years ago in Motivation
