Every page and post of this site needs a trigger warning
Let me start by saying, “Hi.”
I’m glad you’ve survived the things you don’t talk about, and I understand why you don’t. I have a hard time shutting up about mine, because it affects everything I see in this life. Sometimes I see things so differently that it feels like I’m in a different reality, and I am, because I know things differently.
You know things differently when you’ve been held captive by invisible power structures that you were blamed for later. You know things differently when you’ve tried to do the right thing and been punished for it.
Our triggers are not a weakness, although they can completely unravel us. Our triggers tell us when our nervous system remembers a dangerous pattern that it sees playing out again. It’s our memory trying to protect us from a world that would tell us our trauma never existed.
It has taken a ridiculous amount of training, trauma, and turbulence for me to learn to listen to what my triggers are telling me, and try to put words to them.
You shouldn’t need a college education to be heard or believed. It is my sincerest hope that in being publicly vulnerable, others may find a language for expressing their experiences and expertise.
Together we can dismantle the systems that allowed our traumas and demanded our silence.
I want you to know that you’re brave just for being here.
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