REBIRTH

I have always loved Christmas. But after the traumatic birth of my daughter on Christmas Day, it holds a different place in my life story...

I’ve taken a step backwards in recent weeks. I’ve felt the old PTSD symptoms re-emerging, clouding my mind and creeping in at the edges....

If you asked my younger self where I imagined myself to be when I turned 30, the last thing I would have said would have been battling...

There is a field where we live. It’s just an ordinary field, with brambles thickening the hedges and birds swooping overhead. A field...

For the past few years I’ve kept a diary. Just one line a day: a summary of happenings, to look back on and remember life as it once was....

I used a tampon today. A run of the mill experience for a woman in their early 30s, you may say. Or you may fall into the ‘oversharing’...

Birth is everywhere: Birthdays. (Anybody’s, but particularly your children’s.) Your friend’s pregnancy announcement. That scene in the...

I think it will be a long time before I am able to say I am proud of my birth story. Birth trauma runs deep, and the shame associated...

Dear friend, I’m sorry I didn’t tell you what I was going through. I’m sorry I didn’t ask you for help. But please know it wasn’t a...

EMDR Therapy saved my life. It made me feel as though I could cope with the world again. Previous to being diagnosed with PTSD, I had...

Asking for help is like throwing yourself over the edge. You don’t know where you’re going to land, or whether you will survive the fall....

“What does PTSD feel like?” Like having tunnel vision. I say. Like fury roaring in your ears. I say. Like echoes in a ravine. I say. Like...