by Cathy Terranova | Dec 29, 2014 | Rethink Trauma, Uncategorized
The holidays are my husband’s favorite time of year. He loves decorating, shopping for gifts, wrapping presents, and seeing people’s faces when they open what he’s gotten them. He loves Christmas trees, Advent calendars, Christmas stories, claymation...
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 | Sep 8, 2014 | Rethink Trauma
It was during a one act competition my junior year that I ironically won an award for playing a young actress who was struggling with dissociative identity disorder.I had no idea what was waiting in my mind. Looking at this picture I see a very different...
by Cathy Terranova | Aug 18, 2014 | Rethink Trauma, Uncategorized
Everyone’s life is different. It’s just the truth. It seems that there are just as many disabilities as abilities and we see story after story of people overcoming obstacles. I just saw that someone- that I admit I was not particularly fond of in high...
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...
