I Sleep with a Photo of My Little One.
While I take responsibility for the events leading to that moment, that invasion is where I am stuck. Stuck because it led to my little baby without a dad.
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Alex O’Donoghue
How to Heal Trauma: Learning from Animals.
I learnt a life-changing lesson from a book I was recommended: Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter Levine, a groundbreaking researcher into the ways humans fail to mimic animals in their ability to dispel trauma from their bodies in quick time.
The No-Quick-Fix Guide to Eating in the Middle of the Night.
I am largely healed from NES. It has taken over a decade, and still I battle some nights. Last night, it was a tub of hummus.
What Grief Can Do to the Heart: Reflections on My Dad and the Power of Now.
I found the outside and its waiting room scary, and I liked the comfort being next to Dad gave me. His breathing, the beep of the machines, the classical music I played.
On Being the ‘Other Woman’.
I am not the bad that Google has told me. I spent nights Googling what it must feel like to be the other woman, and found zilch. Just 'You’re shit'.
‘The Secret’ to Ditching Shame: Take What Works and Leave the Rest.
Like attracts like, both in The Secret theory and often between real people in life. So I was 'unlike', because shame has no place on a vision board.