trauma response

Protection

My Spirit has always been strong. I was able to discern harm from a very young age, and as I experienced trauma in the forms of physical and sexual assaults, emotional & mental abuse, my Spirit did all it could to protect me. At times, that protection became difficult, for my body was so used […]

The Dark Night of the Soul

You know it That night when you cannot sleepWhen you lay with all your effortwilling your mind to stop Asking your body whyIt burns with such intensityYour eyes are closedThe darkness a comfort in the hopes that you will slip into that semi conscious stateBut your body is awake You allowed it to feel once […]