How TV and Movies Helped Me Endure a Traumatic Time

📺📺📺 DO YOU HAVE CERTAIN SHOWS OR MOVIES YOU WATCH WHEN YOU NEED TO FEEL BETTER? 📺📺📺 When I was trapped overseas by my abusive ex and I had years of waiting for my chance to put my case to the courts, the combination of working on paperwork for my case, looking after my small …

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Three Ways Making Art Benefits Mental Health

Anytime you sit down to practice your art you feel it, that sense of calm that is like a coming home. You just know it’s good for you…or is it? Is doing art just another way to check out of reality for a while? That kind of thinking can make it feel selfish to sit …

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Tell Your Story

Do you tell your story? It took me a long time to tell mine. It took a long time for me to even understand mine. Then there was the shame. Society teaches us certain things are the fault of the woman, the victim, the child, the poor person, the underdog. I think, in many ways, …

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A Little More About Me

When I defeated my covert narcissist husband in court and won my international relocation case, I thought I was home free. After a couple of decades of abuse, learning that I had been abused (Google: covert narcissism), going through months and months of learning about how the abuse worked to slowly erase my identity and …