Tag: Trauma
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Another Year Gone… 2022
Today is 31 December 2022. Every year at around this time I would write a memoirs from the future post where I reflected on each month of the year and would select some photo’s. This year, I feel like I spent a lot of time in my head as I navigated trauma exposure therapy, came…
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Don’t just survive… thrive – the holidays theme
Its been quite some time since I posted last; time really flies when you are wondering through space and time with tunnel vision. The holiday survival guide is a theme that is all over the interwebs over this time of the year. The holidays aren’t stressful for me anymore. I made a decision many years…
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Let the music move you
One thing that happened when I was diagnosed with cancer was that I disconnected with my body. This was not conscious, but I did feel like my body had thrown me the finger. Little did I know that the disconnection was my automated trauma response; more on that another time. What I also managed to…
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The right to choose
In 2012 I wrote a blog post about a woman’s right to choose. I noted how it is a touchy subject for many. Some people don’t care, some people get so irate you would swear they were being forced to end a pregnancy themselves. There is so much judgment passed by those who judge with…
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Setting Myself Free
Its been a while since I have written about cancer. I had a few posts on my old site, but as I mentioned, it was so clinical that it was more information on the process of staging and treatment; I didn’t write much about how it changed me at my core. How it made me…
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The pen with magic powers
I had long forgotten the power of the pen. Once an avid blogger, I knew that there was something so incredibly cathartic about putting words onto paper or a screen. Out of the mind and into the open. While I love that I can digitise my thoughts (by typing them here), there is something special…
Candice Peetz 