I’ve been working on an autobiographical/self-help novel lately: I’m rereading my old journals and writing to my younger self to offer the compassion, forgiveness, comfort, and hindsight that I didn’t have then. In the first two or three days I got 4,000 words down, and I’ve been having trouble getting back to it. This isn’t … Continue reading You Can Find it Again
ptsd
It Wasn’t Your Fault.
TW: this is for victims of SA. I'm writing this because I need to hear these things, and I'm sharing it because I doubt I'm the only one. It wasn't your fault. Period. No one gets to gatekeep by telling you that what they experienced was worse, or that what you experienced was not that … Continue reading It Wasn’t Your Fault.
Mariah K. Porter 