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I tried every diet I could find to heal my stomach aches and nausea. But food wasn’t the cause, trauma was.

Social media outrage leads to overwhelm. Artists recovering from trauma need to protect themselves so they can continue to heal.

Claiming the title of artist with confidence will help you heal from the trauma that destroyed your identity in the first place.

Healing from trauma isn’t easy, but it’s possible. Here are some thoughts on the purpose, process, and problems of engaging our story to heal from trauma and set our art free. What does healing from trauma even mean? So right away I want to address two phrases I put in the title of this episode: […]

In the last episode of my story, I share how I made more time for my recovery, making art, and creating a podcast.

I didn’t know how I was going to survive the shutdown during the pandemic. But every day my resiliency grew. I bet yours did, too.

I had lost hope that I’d ever stay sober or heal from trauma. But my hope was restored when I admitted I couldn’t do it alone.

My trauma also impacted my husband. He was supporting me emotionally and our family financially. But he needed support, too.

PTSD knocked me down until I couldn’t get up again. Everything was getting worse, not better. I needed help, and didn’t know where to turn.

When I was daignosed with PTSD, it was like all my feelings were put into a blender and turned on high with the top off.

After sharing my story of past abuse, I was finally getting some help. Then something happened that changed everything.

I finally told someone about the abuse after keeping it a secret for 23 years. It didn’t go how I expected.

The longer I went where I was doing what I didn’t want to be doing, the more I felt helpless to change.

Moving to a new city strengthened our family bond. But it wasn’t long before we were back to our old habits.

How can we tell where our symptoms come from? For me, it took sharing my story to piece together the individual symptoms.

Can you spend all your time with someone and still feel alone? In this episode, I share a time I felt that way.

Have you ever had times in your life that were so hectic you barely had time for yourself at all? I can relate!

My life changed dramatically when I become a teenage mom, and my art from that time reflects the changes I was going through.

The dark secret of abuse distorted how I saw myself as a teenager and led to increased drug use and hating my body.

My symptoms of abuse from childhood included feeling guilt and shame, stomach aches, nausea, and addiction.

Are you an artistic type who’s gone through trauma? This podcast is for you! I’m sharing my story of trauma and things I’ve done to heal and find sobriety.