by Cathy Terranova | Jan 12, 2015 | Uncategorized
Staring at the screen of this computer someone is lending me indefinitely, trying to write a post for the new website another friend made me, in a bed that someone else gave me, in a house that Doug and I are welcome to stay in rent-free, I can’t help but be...
by Cathy Terranova | Dec 22, 2014 | Rethink Trauma, Uncategorized
I used to believe that grief could be measured. That the amount of sorrow you should feel about something was some how dispensed to you and that you got less the further away you were from the epicenter of tragedy. The flaw in that system is that grief...
by Cathy Terranova | Dec 1, 2014 | Uncategorized
This post isn’t my first about problems that I’ve seen in The Church. It probably won’t be my last. But what I have learned in the last year is that abandonment can come from the strangest places. Even your church small group. But wait? Isn’t...
by Cathy Terranova | Nov 10, 2014 | Caregiving, Rethink Trauma
When I was little, I would lay in my bed and brush my hair all to one side. Like someone would if they ran their hands through my hair. When things were scary, I would hide under my bed or in my closet. If that was an option. When I wet the bed, I got up, stripped the...
by Cathy Terranova | Oct 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
If you ask me where I’m from, I will doubtless tell you about Northern Virginia. It is a singular place. It’s an even more singular place to grow up. In the midst of a largely transient community there is a sub culture of standbys who make their presence...
