People who’ve suffered trauma early in life often experience a difficult relationship with their bodies. We can feel like prisoners in our own skin. The pain was probably too much. Perhaps the way we were handled was traumatic. Maybe we were even forced into uncomfortable and restricting positions in order to undergo a surgery or [...]
Archive for November, 2011
What Survivors of Infant Trauma Need
Posted in adult PTSD, affirmations, healing, meditation, PTSD, tagged ceremony, healing, infant surgery, infant trauma, PTSD on November 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Healing Art of Writing
Posted in healing, medical humanities, medical memoir, medicine and literature, Writing, tagged Dr. David Watts, medical humanities, medical memoir, The Autobiography of a Sea Creature, UC Press, writing on November 16, 2011 | 2 Comments »
What an incredible reading I participated in at Open Secret bookstore in San Rafael, California this past Saturday night. Some of us published in the anthology The Healing Art of Writing, Volume One read to a super supportive audience. David Watts, one of the editors as well as a contributor, introduced the event, making everyone [...]
A Great Article about Infant Surgery!
Posted in adult PTSD, infant anesthesia, infant surgery, infant trauma, pediatric trauma, PTSD, tagged Dr. D. Chamberlain, infant anesthesia, medical trauma, neurobiology of early trauma, neurological development, pediatric psychological trauma on November 8, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Just want to give a shout out about Terry T. Monell’s article “Living Out the Past: Infant Surgery Prior to 1987,” which discusses the history of infant surgery without anesthesia and details the trauma that many of us still live with. Even though Ms. Monell’s article contains many medical terms, I found it easy to [...]
A Time for Sea Creature
Posted in healing, Illness narratives, medical memoir, medicine and literature, PTSD, Writing, tagged autobiography, illness narratives, infant PTSD, medical memoir, memoir, pediatric trauma, PTSD, writing on November 1, 2011 | 8 Comments »
I had the most wonderful blogpost in mind for this past Saturday morning. Just one more read-through of the article Friday night and…………….. Not so fast. Snail mail came early Friday afternoon, along with the letter that I had hoped I would never see—my rejection letter from the University of Nebraska American Lives Series. My [...]
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