Healing from emotional damage

To Write Love on Her Arms on Instagram: "We hear so many things about healing. About getting pieces of yourself back or thinking that it means we are not whole now but will be once we are “healed.” Maybe that isn’t what healing is though. Perhaps it’s growth, it’s feeling uncomfortable emotions and processing them so they no longer live inside of us, and it’s recognizing that our journeys can look similar at times and completely different at other times—and that’s perfectly OK. We invite…

I'm reeling. After a flurry of angry email exchanges about how pissed at each other we are about work stuff, John sends me this, his latest blog. Fuck. He's SO up his own ass. I am now a narcissist too, it seems. And I must have imagined my 9 days in hospital and 7 weeks off work - I did it all to make him feel bad. Really??!! WHEN NARCISSISTS CLAIM TO BE VICTIMS OF NARCISSISTS – WHO IS THE NARCISSIST? My Narcissism is palpable !! ……… every day, at least 10 times a day, I catch myself…

Some people can't love you b/c they're emotionally & spiritually frozen. They recoil from or avoid affection. You'll never meet a deep gaze from their shallow eyes, only a surface glance. They'll touch your hand w/ their hand but never their heart. They'll serve your body but not soul. They can only connect w/ you through utility, never passion. They're empty, dead inside. They'll break your <3 if you let them. You'll waste your whole life waiting for them to wake up to the treasure of you.

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Let me explain something- PTSD is not a condition of ungratefulness. I do not have PTSD because I fail to recognize and appreciate how beautiful my life currently is. PTSD is not me dwelling in the…