Category Archives: Trauma

Navigating the Realms

Posted on March 24, 2021 by jenny

I posted the Story of Persephone because it is such a beautiful description of the two worlds I navigate on a regular basis. Except that for me the dark realm is most often painful and confusing, with times of depression, … Continue reading →

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Social Distancing is Difficult for Me

Posted on March 22, 2021 by jenny

I suspected that I was having a very hard time with the social distancing because I was traumatized by being left alone too much when I was an infant. The problem has to do with regulating the nervous system. Your … Continue reading →

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“Stuck in Their Misery”

Posted on March 21, 2021 by jenny

I got an email recently from someone who said I was “stuck in my misery.” Feeling fortified by the knowledge that I hadn’t wasted my suffering, and knowing that our culture tends to blame people for their suffering, I didn’t … Continue reading →

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Do Not Waste Your Suffering

Posted on March 20, 2021 by jenny

My therapist sent me a link to a video of Dr. Eduardo Duran on “Healing the Soul Wound.” He is speaking to Native Americans who are part of a Family Service organization working to help their people heal from the … Continue reading →

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Yesterday and Today

Posted on March 6, 2021 by jenny

Friday 3rd cup. coffee. Going out with Mocha I did my best to say yes to everything. Yes to cold, to wind, to frozen snow and dirty ice, to the call of a cardinal, to failure to see the cardinal, … Continue reading →

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A Container for Initiation

Posted on February 23, 2021 by jenny

Weller describes the container: What distinguishes these two things is initiation, what I call the contained encounter with death. The containment was provided by the community, by the elders, by the ancestors, by the rituals, by the space itself. In … Continue reading →

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Trauma vs. Initiation

Posted on February 20, 2021 by jenny

Francis Weller, from a talk published in Kosmos Journal: In any true initiatory process, there’s three things that happen. First, there’s a severance from the world that you once knew. Then there’s a radical alteration in your sense of identity. … Continue reading →

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“It’s not OK to be a baby”

Posted on February 18, 2021 by jenny

The first draft for this post was done on December 28, 2020. I think I must have got too sidetracked by the further lockdown and not talking to Erica over the holidays to continue with it. I see that it’s … Continue reading →

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Younger Parts of Me

Posted on February 17, 2021 by jenny

In my therapy session for January 15, one of the things that came up was that the only thing that would have made Mother happy would be to not be my true self. Younger parts of me are bewildered by … Continue reading →

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The Blood-Soaked Bundle, November 1992

Posted on January 20, 2021 by jenny

This is from my journal for November 1992. I had no idea yet that I was dealing with PTSD, in fact I wasn’t even on medication. This is an account of a therapy session with Karen Collins in Montpelier, who … Continue reading →

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