What Do Your Clothes Say About You?
I was helping one of my friends move house recently. We’ve been friends since college, and she asked me to help her box some of her old stuff for the movers. Her teenage girls were packing up their clothes, and I couldn’t help hearing some of their conversation. They...
Behaviors Caused By Trauma
You Can’t Run Away From Your Own Head Human beings are like an iceberg. We go through life sharing only the pieces of ourselves that we want people to see. But there’s so much more going on inside. Isaac Newton’s third law states that: “for every action (force)...
Continued: Trauma and its Effect on the Brain: Beyond Fight, Flight and Freeze States…
My name’s Lizzy, and I’m a trauma survivor. I write to spread awareness of what it feels like to live after traumatic events and abuse. I know because I’m living this life. A life after enduring more than a human being should be able to survive. The five F’s of Trauma...