



It Was Kind of Nice!
Our Guest Blogger reminds us that it’s kind of nice when healing has taken place.

Dissociative Writers
Dissociative Writers is the main event. My memoir was just the vehicle that got the community up and running.

Dissociation….
Guest blogger Judie Ritchie shares a poem that describes her experience of dissociation.

On the Road to Therapy
Guest blogger Peter B has a musical epiphany on the way to therapy.

Recalibrating with Cancer
Guest blogger and survivor Vilaya Roberts embodies resiliency in the face of a cancer diagnosis.

Starry Night
The Beyond Van Gogh exhibit brought me back to my own insanity and how his story was actually a comfort to me in my healing.


Christmas Tree Ornaments
My tree ornaments are reminders of significant times in my life. In some ways, they hold good memories that push bad memories into the background.

Let It End Here: Prevention
If it takes a community to enable child sexual abuse, then it takes a very different kind of community to prevent it.




A Personal Healing Liturgy*
Personal liturgies for healing can transform the damage done by the “bad” rituals of our childhoods.



DW Responds to the NYT
Dissociative Writers respond to an article published in the New York Times entitled The Forgotten Lessons of the Recovered Memory Movement.

Pathways to Healing
The path to my healing from chronic childhood abuse points to similar (but different) paths for others.