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Trauma Recovery is A Never-Ending Fight.

Posted on September 12, 2016October 20, 2019 by Whitney

Note: If you’re one of the parties in this ongoing drama, stop reading my site. This post is about my Trauma recovery. I am posting it in the hopes that it might help someone dealing with Trauma feel like they aren’t broken. Or help loved ones understand what someone is going through. I’ll be sad…

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Sharing My Trauma – Being Brave/Being Honest

Posted on June 9, 2015October 21, 2019 by Whitney

Last week, in the middle of recording a video about the way women are treated on television, I broke down. I broke down, I thought about why… and then I recorded this video, sharing my trauma (and recovery) with you. (I was going to record a video about Sansa Stark – but this article from…

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Stolen Photos and The Thing I’m Finally Writing About

Posted on September 2, 2014September 3, 2014 by Whitney

As I’m sure everyone heard by now, a lot of female celebrities had nude pictures leaked over the weekend. Leaked. Isn’t it amazing that the media uses that word instead of stolen? Because leaked makes it sound so harmless, so much less violating than something being stolen and put on the internet where anyone can…

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I am a writer, artist, mother, and geek. I write about what catches my attention- whether it's fandom, politics, hockey, life as a Latina, or life with Crohns disease. Sometimes I write about marriage and kids, but that's not very often these days.


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