mental-health
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Five Things I Love about My Aging Body
First, a confession I’m known to whine about my weight, lament my diminishing strength, grumble about aches, and otherwise hate on my physical self. If you spent much time around me, you’d probably laugh at my claim that I love my body. I know that when I thought about it, I laughed. What is there… Continue reading
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Why We May Doubt Our Memories of Childhood Trauma
When I was growing up in my mother’s large, tightly-knit extended family, I was subjected to sexual abuse. Mother warned me not to tell anyone what was happening to me. Instead, she made up a story — a tale of a child nurtured and cared for by a kind, loving family — that she instructed… Continue reading
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What Health Experts Get Wrong about Seniors and Solitude
“Chuck all that!” says GCHiker in his YouTube video Why I Avoid People. Responding to health experts who advise older people to maintain social contacts to avoid a variety of age-related health problems, GCHiker heartily disagrees. An intrepid hiker and solitary wanderer, he says he has grown quite comfortable in his later years with being alone. Confessing that… Continue reading
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It Happened to Me; It Happens to Others
Shortly after my poetry chapbook, Falling: A Memoir in Verse, was published, I was asked by the university where I taught at the time to give a reading on our campus. I write about difficult subjects. My instincts prod me to face experiences from my past that cause me the most discomfort and to write… Continue reading
Do you write about yourself and your experiences? Do you write about traumatic events in your life? Or, do you struggle to find time and motivation to write?
If so, this blog is for you.
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