Tag Archives: childhood trauma

June 20th, 2016

June 20th, 2016
June 20th, 2016

If you find yourself telling a victim of abuse that your perception of their experience is more important than their actual experience, understand that you’re contributing to the culture that keeps abuse survivors from speaking up. You’re part of the reason battered spouses stay and rape victims don’t file charges.

But the good news is that you can stop. You can learn. And I hope that you do. Because the world doesn’t need more of that garbage.

May 31st, 2016

May 31st, 2016
May 31st, 2016

I feel like such an uncomfortable, wounded kid so much of the time. I can’t tell you what it means to just feel like myself around some of you. And maybe this will give you some insight into why I’m awkward sometimes or why it took a while for us to be close. I’m always working on it and it’s always getting better, but it’s most definitely “a thing.”