trauma – Trapped In The Margins

September 7, 2022

No more boogeymen to blame (aka healing my inner teenager)

There are no more boogeymen to blame for my trauma so it’s time to confront the next phase of healing – the inner teenager. This means that I have to examine my relationship with social media. I have a deep love/hate relationship with it. The beginning of this journey started with lesser known sites like

One year later

Today is the first anniversary of the Capitol riot. It’s also the one year anniversary of when I could have lost the person that means the most to me in this world. My life was completely different a year ago. I had been engaged for almost two months and I was recovering from an emergency

tears.

I looked in the mirror and began to cry. Not ordinary tears but ones of deep sorrow. The kind that comes from generations of trauma. The ones where my ancestors break through And weep for me. A child of God. Their child. The fruit of their labor. The triumph among adversity. The culmination of centuries