let me be clear
I am not a therapist. I am not your girl if you’re looking for a doctorate level of expertise.
THE BRIDGE
I am, however, a storyteller. Coupled with therapy, written word has greatly impacted my healing. While it is important to find representation, my goal is not to throw the narratives of my personal experience on you. Rather, I want to add a human element to the clinical studies and research that makes sense of our responses- to bridge the academic with the everyday.
I like having a hand on the tap, able to control how much reflection I let in. The truth is sometimes I can handle more “deep diving” than other times. That’s what’s amazing about the pointed ambiguity of stories and metaphors. It brings to light just what your mind is begging you to acknowledge in the bite sizes that it can actually process.
this is a place
This is a place where you can sneak by with your Doritos and wine to feel seen, made sense of and empowered. I’m convinced the less we know, the bigger we mess things up. My responses to my pain created a whole lot of messes that I wish I had known to expect, and could have made sense of in real time.
TO THE BRIM
My hope is that my experience is a comfort- a space for the funny girl whose trauma response landed her fist through a wall to see that she’s not alone, she’s not crazy (well I mean, no more than your average nut) and that there is a way to live a full brimming life. Because where there is a trauma response, there is also trauma growth. And that’s some good shit.