by Cathy Terranova | Jul 28, 2014 | Rethink Trauma
Decapitation and other severed body parts are common in surrealist art, especially, of the female form and I can’t help but feel like this woman. Often. It seems lately that for every step I take forward, several are lost. For the amount of hours I clock with my...
by Cathy Terranova | Jul 14, 2014 | Rethink Trauma
I was inspired this week by a friend, Kait, who could tell you the first, second, and third thing about struggling with chronic illness. She posted about having to give up an opportunity to study abroad in order to begin a more intensive medical regimen to push...
by Cathy Terranova | Jul 7, 2014 | Rethink Trauma
For those of us with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, symptoms can be any number of a wide variety. PTSD is an avoidance disorder it is the affect of your mind refusing to “deal with” or process trauma. Many...
by Cathy Terranova | Jun 30, 2014 | Rethink Trauma
Posted 12/17/13: I have had a lot of contact here in the last few weeks with people who are supposed to represent clinics, doctors, and social workers. I don’t recall being treated like a human being by any if them. Instead of dwelling on being hurt, I’ve realized GOD...
by Cathy Terranova | Jun 10, 2014 | Rethink Trauma
It is less-than-common knowledge that I spent most of my life striving to accomplish a very singular goal: To be a performer. I didn’t want to be a writer until GOD asked me to. I’ve always had a lean towards the verbal and I’m sure it is not...
by Cathy Terranova | Jun 4, 2014 | Rethink Trauma
(Massive spoiler ahead if you haven’t read or watched any of The Lord Of The Rings trilogy.) Doug here. Owning a bookstore gives me certain unalienable rights. One of those is to have a mild-to-moderate obsession with Lord Of The Rings, the trilogy by JRR...
