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This statement caught my attention and expressed my thoughts very succinctly: Someone who drowns in 7 feet of water is just as dead as someone who drowns in 20 feet of water. Stop comparing traumas, stop belittling your or anyone else’s trauma because it wasn’t “as bad” as someone else’s. This isn’t a competition, we…

Stop Comparing Trauma

November 15, 2024

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In the past several months, I’ve been in recovery, having had everything in my life metaphorically on fire. In these difficult times, I had been speaking with my counselor, when she told me, “Sometimes, you don’t know anything is wrong until everything is on fire.”– Heather Brummer This statement hit me hard as I recalled the…

When Life Catches On Fire

October 10, 2024

Woman in woods on fire holding an umbrella and briefcase
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