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 | May 26, 2014 | Rethink Trauma
For those of you who haven’t seen or read, “The Help”. You probably should. Unless you are like me and you can only handle so much sad in one place, then you can make it halfway through the movie and keep promising yourself that one day you’ll...
by Cathy Terranova | Oct 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
Trauma is a tricky thing. PTSD is a tricky thing. Our traumas are like shrill echoes down a long hallway. PTSD makes you believe they are not echoes, but that the eerie, disturbing things that happened are happening again. We can get caught up in waiting for the...
by Cathy Terranova | Sep 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
“Much-Afraid told herself that never before had she realized what the awakening from the death of winter was like.” -Hannah Hurnard, Hind’s Feet On High Places (pg. 112) It is particularly heart-wrenching for me to read those lines. Maybe because the...
