recovery – Page 2 – making unbreakable

Can I Fix It With A Sandwich?

I like helping people. I like volunteering for stuff. Particularly when it comes to feeding people. Whenever sign-up sheets went around in church for a pitch-in, potluck, taking a meal to a family, or hosting the missionaries for dinner I always signed up. For me, feeding people is the easiest and best way to showContinue reading “Can I Fix It With A Sandwich?”

WHY DIDN’T YOU JUST ACT NORMAL?

I’ve been processing what happened for over a year and half, I maybe haven’t been processing it in the most healthy and helpful way given I was doing it all by myself for the first year — but the fact is when I tell someone “I was sexually assaulted” the sting of those words hasContinue reading “WHY DIDN’T YOU JUST ACT NORMAL?”

aftermath.

I’ve learned over the last year that there are two ways people generally deal with traumatic events similar to what happened to me. The first is managing to make yourself so busy with so many other things, people, activities, and distractions that you simply don’t have time to think about anything else but running awayContinue reading “aftermath.”