Chasing Lazarus

I've been reading a new series that was recently recommended to me: So You Want To Be A Wizard. It's a fun series, well written. The first book is kid appropriate, I think. I would recommend it more widely as a great book for kids, but the infrequent references to sex...

Posted on an ADHD FB groupMy mother has ADHD, and all four of her children inherited it in some form. I'm combined inattentive and hyperactive, and very hyperactive. I was easily diagnosed, even in 1990 as a girl. My mother got her diagnosis because the books she...

I had a good therapy session where I started digging into the roots of why I tend towards apathy. People react to stress with a lot more than fight or flight, and freezing or playing possum is a valid and common survival response. Evidently I have a very deeply...

I recently saw, once again, posed the question of whether or not Mary experienced labor pains when she gave birth to Christ. As the discussion unfolded, the question arose, "What does that word mean in Genesis anyway?" In Genesis 3, God says to Eve, "in pain you shall...

I have mixed feelings this year about Independence Day. I love my country, I really do. I believe whole heartedly in "The American Experiment, in the building and growth of a nation founded by immigrants who ran the gamut from poor looking to escape their poverty,...

Trauma is... I'm sitting here puzzling over how to start, and it occurs to me that the above is a complete sentence in itself. Trauma is. Trauma isn't something that comes into your life and then leaves again. Contrary to the opinions of quite a number of intelligent...

One of the more fascinating (to me) aspects of being finally diagnosed with a connective tissue disorder is all the little things over my life just falling into place. It was the same when I was diagnosed with Aspergers, with a heart issue, with a sleep disorder....

I've been trying to find the words for this for several months now. I've been in therapy using EMDR since September. It doesn't work for everyone, but it turns out that I'm the ideal kind of patient for this. Combination of personality, more than 30 years of...

The other night I had an unusual dream. I dreamt that I and a number of other people moved to another world, where we established a new civilization. It was beautiful and it worked. Not flawlessly of course, it was no utopia. But it was good. Over the course of the...