When your “few nights a week” turns into every night, is it starting to be too much? When your typical 2 drinks a night turns into 3, is it too much then? What about when your (now typical) 3 drinks a night are getting stronger and stronger, is it too much now? When your drink …
Parenting. That’s it. Parenting. I can spend the entire day cleaning only to look like nothing has changed. I can spend the entire day at the service of others only to feel like I’ve let them all down. Suddenly I look at the time and the day is gone. It’s nearly dinner time, then bed …
The thing about trauma and PTSD is that it can come up unexpectedly and seemingly out of nowhere. I have a pretty significant amount of PTSD and all of that, but still, things frequently take me by surprise about what can be triggering or scary. Last year on Independence Day, my family shot off fireworks …