The trauma of perfection: from denial to healing, part 1 of 6

The anger letter There’s a saying that goes like this: “Truth hurts.” While that may be true initially, I hope…

Continue Reading →

Intrusive thoughts, part 1 of 2

Surprise, surprise, surprise If you read the first series on this blog, you’ll recognize the secondary title—Surprise, Surprise, Surprise—from several…

Continue Reading →

Traumatic grief, part 4 of 5

Uncover, discover and discard Have you ever dug to the back of your fridge and found something in there that…

Continue Reading →

Traumatic grief, part 3 of 5

Overcoming the fear of feelings Did you ever wake up from a great dream and you tried to go right…

Continue Reading →

Thanksgiving, part 4 of 5

Happiness and joy I’ve found it challenging to come up with a really good analogy for the difference between happiness…

Continue Reading →

The apology, part 1 of 2

Sincere or insincere? Here’s the biggest shock in this interesting chain of events. Uncle Henry texted Brandon an apology shortly…

Continue Reading →

Sneak attack impact, part 1 of 2

Seeing clearly The morning after The day after we read Uncle Henry’s sneak attack letter, I awoke at my friend…

Continue Reading →

Processing the painful emotions, part 4 of 4

Truth, letting go and the prayer Did and didn’t It’s easy to identify what people did. It takes a little…

Continue Reading →