PTSD is physical. Your body remembers the trauma, and until your body can process the trauma, it stays with you. PTSD pain screams for...

I am disconnected from everyone and everything. Connecting means feeling. Feeling hurts too much. *** A lot of people don't realize that...

trigger warning: this post discusses self-harm, references some details of abuse, and portrays some graphic imaginings that occur in a...

I've thought a lot about the concept of loneliness. The basic premise of loneliness is that we are alone, and yet, I think all of us have...

By Anthony  in our bed  in the darkness  under our clean sheets and dolphin-gray comforter. His strong arm wraps  around my waist, hand...

Cumbered soul. Oppressed heart. Bowed back.  She treads forward beneath her weighted cross.  Shuffling. Faltering. Her body crunches....

PTSD is reading the Bible with your family, but suddenly tensing up because the words you're reading were said verbatim by your abusers...