This is another story framed by my morning meditation practice of walking my ass off... but bear with me. For the past...
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Jess Journals: Turn your worst fears into comforts
You know what sucks? Living out of fear. For years, I didn’t do… well… much of anything. Because it was all too...
LIVE: My comfortable, crazy-controlled life is over. Leaning in instead of running away.
This series of posts is about my return to my childhood home... but even if you're not visiting your childhood home...
1.13 “Revert to Draft” | LIVE | Leaning into dark emotions; Getting honest about my lost relationship
June 24th 2020 So... for months I've been doing well, spitting optimism, and riding highs. But this hasn't been...
1.12 ✭ Early Days Rerelease: Endless Trauma Loops | Why do they happen
For the past 2 years, I've had major epiphany moments about my trauma journey and recovery .I've made enormous...
✭ 1.11 Early Days Rerelease: Complex Trauma and insecure attachments
I'm not proud to admit, I have bad relationships. I get obsessive and anxious. I fall into unhealthy patterns with...
LIVE: From my childhood home. Talking ’bout family triggers.
I think most of us struggle with being back home. And yet, here I am. Three weeks into chilling in Illinois. It's...
LIVE: Visiting my childhood home with C-PTSD. I’m “run-falling” downhill.
Continuing with my real-time reporting of life in a triggering place at a triggering time… A few days ago, I came to...
1.10 “Revert to Draft” | LIVE from my childhood home; Experiments and Results in C-PTSD management
June 14th, 2020. Who’s back home and losing my trauma recovery footing? This guy! When we left off, I was talking...
LIVE: Back in my childhood home. Losing routine & losing my goddamn mind
This is part of the Exercise for Trauma Recovery Series. This post wasn't supposed to happen. But I'm so anxious,...
HOW TO: Overcome stagnancy! Start hiking to Heal.
This is a HOW TO post in the Exercise for Trauma Recovery Series. Coming up next:Impromptu LIVE reporting from my...
✭ 1.8 Early Days Rerelease: Visiting home and trauma journey backslides
For months I’ve been great (you know, relatively speaking for a Traumatized MF). I’ve been focused, uber productive,...
The difference between exercising for appearance and exercising for wellness
This is a bonus post in the Exercise for Trauma Recovery Series. I’m a master of torture. I can turn any day into an...
My key to Trauma management: Hiking for mental wellness
This is my master post in the Exercise for Trauma Recovery Series. I couldn’t speak more highly about the necessity of...
✭ 1.3 Early Days Rerelease: Intro to my C-PSTD
Listen up! It's THE FIRST blog post I made (and kept) for Traumatized Motherfuckers... read in audiobook style for...
OVER-exercising for appearance? MF, I’m sprinting towards a trauma response
This is a post in the Exercise for Trauma Recovery Series. For a few weeks I’ve been on a really good health streak. I...