by Cathy Terranova | Mar 9, 2015 | Chronic Heroes, Uncategorized
I met Kait in North Dakota, while we were on separate mission trips to the same place. She is, without question, a singular individual. She is caring, beautiful, funny, smart, artistic; the list is only exhaustive because so is the English language. For all of the...
by Cathy Terranova | Mar 1, 2015 | Rethink Trauma, Uncategorized
Sitting at a picnic table out side at my community college’s Woodbridge campus I heard the most difficult piece of advice I ever fully accepted. Little did I know that it was coming from a recovering alcoholic and even now I couldn’t have guessed how this...
by Cathy Terranova | Feb 25, 2015 | Rethink Trauma
I’ve recently moved states, as in, yesterday. It can be difficult for someone with Dissociative Identity Disorder to make large changes. I get agitated and confused. I’ve lost all sense of where on Earth I am. As I create new memories and become acquainted...
by Cathy Terranova | Feb 17, 2015 | Caregiving, Chronic Illness And
There is a lot of talk about marriage. Books outline how to have good ones. Articles sum up everything that is wrong and right about the entire “institution”. Workshops are filled with people trying to find better ways to be married. Counselor...
by Cathy Terranova | Feb 9, 2015 | Rethink Trauma, Uncategorized
I am like everyone in that I want to look polished, chic, slender, and the rest of the laundry list. My list of insecurities ranks as one of the lengthiest of its kind since middle school. I don’t feel ugly, most of the time, but I do feel way less than what...
