Stephanie met Rick when she was sixteen years old at church camp. Church camp is a place of fun, fellowship, and when you find things in common with someone, it is easy to fall in love. They immediately became boyfriend and girlfriend. The four-hour distance…
When a trauma occurs in your life, there are 5 areas that your world view is altered: safety, trust, power/control, intimacy, and esteem. Your beliefs about yourself, others, and the world, start to shift like sand under your feet and you begin to have alterations…
I don’t really think it is fair to tell stories of my family members, brave women who come before me, those who have survived tragedies, without being honest about what has happened to me. So, here goes: I received a text message from my close…
Gaslighting has a few definitions. In my upcoming book I will be talking about gaslighting extensively and exhaustively as multiple family members and friends were manipulated by gaslighting. Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation in which a person or a group covertly sows seeds…
We have been hearing stories recently about physicians and increased suicide rates due to COVID-19 and treating patients. What we don’t realize is that this is not new. Physicians have increased barriers to care, their needs are poorly understood by the community, their stress and…
As I sit at my home office, with my daughter upstairs doing school work on her school issued I-Pad, I contemplate what has happened these last few weeks. We are both home right now because we both have contracted COVID. My husband is away from…