personal growth
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Casa del Phoenix
The apartment was a clean slate… a blank page on which to write a new life. My interest in design predated this turbulent chapter of my life. Even while living in her house, I had begun carving out a small… Continue reading
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The Ground Beneath
I arrived beneath grey skies and the oppressively brutal cold of a New England February, outwardly confident, but inside torn apart by trauma, shame and doubt. My hands intermittently shook, not from the cold, but as an outward reflection of… Continue reading
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Heavy Baggage
I have been thinking further about my previous piece, The Skip in the Groove. In that essay, I wrote about how certain triggers can bring one back into the trauma that you think you have been coming to terms with.… Continue reading
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Phoenix Rising
How do your respond when faced with seemingly insurmountable odds? How will you handle it when your entire life has been ruptured? When your very identity and all that you known has been taken from you? That was the situation… Continue reading
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Where Healing Begins
When I wrote the first post on this blog, it was on the occasion of my tenth wedding anniversary. It was a remarkably difficult day. I wrestled with memories of that day, the five years that had preceded it, and… Continue reading
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The Veil Lifts
I have been struggling to find the right word to describe something I have been considering for a while. These thoughts began a few weeks ago in my lawyer’s office, as we were discussing strategy for a very complicated and… Continue reading
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