Oh dang, did you get snowed by a narcissist or BPD boss? It happens to the best of us. In fact - compassionate and empathetic people are MORE likely to get taken in by an abuser with a personality disorder. Sometimes the toxic behavior patterns are evident right off the bat - if you have … Continue reading How to Survive an Abusive Boss

When I was 10 years old, I was obsessed with Stephen King books and movies, things I was decidedly not allowed to read or watch. (Pro parenting tip - want to build a reader? Tell your kid she can’t read something, your tenacious little one will realize that she can pull the hardback books off … Continue reading I did it all for the Crusher – a fandom story

A blast from the past post - 2016 When I played a 19-year-old gospel singer in American Arcana, I had a screaming crying dead baby why God why monologue. And at the end I said “oh God forgive me, wait. No. I don’t need your forgiveness, I forgive myself.” I forgive myself. I forgive myself. … Continue reading I forgive myself

In the summer of 1998 I had just turned 20, and I was miserable. I had a series of health issues/ scares through my late teens that had led to me being a complete couch potato. I felt sick and tired all the time and I was straight psycho - crazy anxiety, snapping at people … Continue reading a yoga story

I just read “7 lessons you should teach your daughter” or something, I was expecting to be blown away. Oh good, someone out there is thinking about how important it is to raise strong, amazing, caring and magic people!  But no. Alas, this article wasn’t written for me. It was written by someone who wants … Continue reading Seven Things

Since my hip injury, I have been dealing with and thinking about the idea of pain a lot. How some people have different tolerance levels, etc. and I have decided the scale of 1-10 thing for “how bad is the pain?” they ask you when you go to the doc for something is really unsatisfactory. … Continue reading The New Pain Scale

Every morning there’s a little thought. The question, will today be the first day I don’t sit on the floor and sob? And some days you may get almost to the end of the day and think, aha! today I have done it! and then something, usually something very small, perhaps even totally disconnected from … Continue reading Every Morning