Tag Archives: healing
The Process of Therapy
You’ve been open about therapy being part of your life. Are you still working with a therapist? Yes. When you have trauma, eventually it needs to be reprocessed. What I’m working on with my therapist now is building up my … Continue reading
Nature
I decided to let nature be my guide by welcoming natural process and seasonal changes and allowing them to dictate the direction of my gardening efforts…I work at nature’s pace, which is slow and seasonal. Positively Purging-I welcome your feedbacks … Continue reading
Beautifual Condolence
People have been asking you how long is too long to wait to send a letter of condolence. I lost my 25-year-old daughter almost 30 years ago. This past April I received a five-page anonymous letter from a guy who … Continue reading
Eloquent Speech for these Unfortunate Situations
I’ve reached the age when more and more people I care about are sick, ailing or dying. I’m sympathetic and want to offer words of comfort, but most of what I can think of to say is stilted, shallow and … Continue reading
Survivor’s Guilt
Something that we do a lot in our communities—I don’t just want to say in New Orleans, but something that we do in my type of neighborhoods—is we compare trauma. We wear our trauma as armor. So, because I wasn’t … Continue reading
