Author Archives: Gracedxoxo

Today, I sent a little prayer up to ask what I should write about. And I immediately heard: you can’t talk your way out of pain. Isn’t it true? How many of us have used our brains, our cognition, our logic and reasoning to think and talk our way out of trauma? I know IContinue reading “You Can’t Talk Your Way Out of Pain”

Elizabeth Gilbert once wrote: “Grief does not obey your plans, or your wishes. Grief will do whatever it wants to you, whenever it wants to. In that regard, Grief has a lot in common with Love.” I like this take on grief or trauma or whatever you want to call it. Like love, trauma swellsContinue reading “Overlap of Love & Loss”

Children everywhere, just surviving. Growing up to be adults who can’t care for themselves let alone children of the next generation. Typically, we think of childhood as the most carefree period in life. The work of being a child includes running, playing, engaging in fantasy, and living a carefree existence. Those of us who haveContinue reading “It shouldn’t hurt to be a child…”

I don’t believe women should necessarily focus so much energy on understanding their perpetrator, caring for him, waiting for him or needing him to acknowledge what he has done to move on with healing. Because of my father, my adulthood has been primarily about recuperating. The price has been high – what he took fromContinue reading “Apologize to me if you bump into my car, not if you rob me of a childhood”