by Cathy Terranova | Mar 24, 2018 | Rethink Trauma
Anger has always been the most difficult emotion for me to process. As a kid, I wasn’t allowed to be angry, but adults were. As an adult, my anger has been treated as misplaced and a sign of my emotions getting the best of me. To show anger has been to show...
by Cathy Terranova | Feb 22, 2018 | Rethink Trauma
I read somewhere that if you die and are left alone with a cat for an extended period of time, it will eat your face. Now, it doesn’t matter if that’s true or not because that weird maybe-true maybe-not-true idea is the reason I didn’t take my life...
by Cathy Terranova | Feb 14, 2018 | Rethink Trauma
People keep telling me to “read up on narcissists” because it seems that everyone is convinced that their ex is one. Being a narcissist is one thing, but the label that they are slapping onto every one presenting as even a semi-asshole is Narcissistic...
by Cathy Terranova | Nov 8, 2017 | Chronic Illness And, Rethink Trauma
I like this image. It reminds me that when it comes to success, I am a bat among birds. I have to do things differently and am a totally different species. New studies have shown that there are close to 18,000 species of birds. Meanwhile, there are a lot of species of...
by Cathy Terranova | Nov 4, 2017 | Rethink Trauma, Therapy
Anyone who knows me knows that I would need a hand written gilded invitation to go for a run. It’s so difficult for me to get up and do cardio. I always say that I could walk The Ring to Mordor, but don’t expect me to run after the ice cream truck. To...
