by Cathy Terranova | Mar 20, 2019 | Rethink Trauma
Over the last couple years, I’ve developed an unfortunate empathy for every female villain in literature. Bitterness has left me embattled and saying things I wish I hadn’t. Bitterness has stolen my spark and my joy. It’s left me a shell of who I used to be. This may...
by Cathy Terranova | Apr 2, 2018 | Rethink Trauma
Recently I was talking to a close friend about loneliness. I had shared with her how isolated and alone I’ve been feeling when she wondered aloud how it should be obvious to the people around me, but it doesn’t seem to be. The answer to that made me land...
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...
