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How Is Anger Helpful? Here are 5 Powerful Benefits
As trauma survivors, feeling or expressing anger over what we experienced, even decades earlier, is a completely normal emotional reaction to a drastic, abnormal situation. We are often taught,...
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Masculinity Isn’t Machismo: Why Macho Needs To Cry by Guest @JHermanKleiger,...
Toxic Masculinity In Action I loved my father. A World War II survivor of horrifying combat, my dad embodied all that was traditionally masculine in the 1960s. He was tough and strong. However, in...
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What Is Social Proof and Does It Matter, Really?
What is social proof? It’s a marketing concept that we are all inadvertently, unknowingly contributing to every time we click on, retweet, like, reply or comment, and share any kind of social media,...
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This is Why “Boundaries” is My 2020 Power Word
Every year I pick a power word as a way to guide my goals and progress each year, and this year my word is boundaries. Not a fan of resolutions, I find having one word gives me the laser focus I need...
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When You Get More Than You Can Handle by guest @1JULIEANDERSON
God won’t give you more than you can handle by Julie Anderson God won’t give you more than you can handle. Who said that? “Ok,” I tell myself just when I am about to snap like a dried up twig. “I can...
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This is the Reason Connection and Interaction are Different
I’ve noticed a disconcerting pattern on social media these past six months: people expecting interaction and feeling entitled to reciprocation. Total strangers shaming others into liking and sharing...
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What if There’s No Forever, Only Tonight? by guest @LorenKleinman
Please welcome my guest, esteemed poet and novelist Loren Kleinman back to the blog. “The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are...
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A View of the Film CAROL: The Specter of Maternal Self-Doubt
Please welcome back Laurie Hollman, Ph.D to my blog today! Beautifully choreographed, “Carol” tells the story of a stunning, married woman with a four-year-old daughter. She befriends and then...
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How To Turn Your Rules for Failure Into Success
I write a lot on my BadRedhead Media blog about taking responsibility for ourselves, whether that’s as writers, in book marketing, or heck, in life in general. As a survivor of childhood sexual abuse...
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Is There a Little Bit of “The Danish Girl” in All of Us? by @lauriehollmanph
Guest post from Laurie Hollman, PhD The Movie: The Danish Girl The Danish Girl is a remarkably stunning movie about the inner struggle and transformation of a transgender person. It speaks at once to...
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This is Why Love and Marriage are a Big Lie by @banishedcougar
Please welcome guest writer, Peter Olsen: blogger, mental health advocate, suicide survivor and all-around cool dude. I love how Peter shares openly about living with mental illness to help others and...
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Reign: An Honest Portrayal of the Brutality of Surviving Rape by @willvanstonejr
Okay, so I know that I’m usually here bitching about how horribly writers royally screw up rape scenes and the act’s aftermath by treating it like some poor soul can’t find their damn car keys, or...
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You Are What You Eat: The Vegetarian Wars by Chris O’Brien ( @microbrien)
One time, a friend of a friend I had just met said to me, “You know Hitler made all the German soldiers go vegetarian and it was the first state-promoted instance of a vegetarian diet, so you’re...
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Reign: An Honest Portrayal of the Brutality of Surviving Rape by @willvanstonejr
Okay, so I know that I’m usually here bitching about how horribly writers royally screw up rape scenes and the act’s aftermath by treating it like some poor soul can’t find their damn car keys, or...
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What Happens When You Walk Through The Fire
When I finally decided it was time to tell my (now-ex) husband I wanted him to move out, that I wanted a divorce, I wasn’t ready to walk through the fire. I’d skipped around the burning coals for...
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When You Get More Than You Can Handle by guest @1JULIEANDERSON
God won’t give you more than you can handle by Julie Anderson God won’t give you more than you can handle. Who said that? “Ok,” I tell myself just when I am about to snap like a dried up twig. “I can...
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This is the Reason Connection and Interaction are Different
I’ve noticed a disconcerting pattern on social media these past six months: people expecting interaction and feeling entitled to reciprocation. Total strangers shaming others into liking and sharing...
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How My Elements Are On Fire
How My Elements Are On Fire by Rachel Thompson It’s all in the ending, regardless of how it begins, causing water to steam, fire to crackle, earth to heat, air to move. The elements are angry, my worry...
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This is Why I Wear the Mask of Congeniality
The divorce was final in December, but the relationship doesn’t end, does it? You think it will, but it won’t. You want it to be amicable, wearing your mask of congeniality while the stabs of...
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What if There’s No Forever, Only Tonight? by guest @LorenKleinman
Please welcome my guest, esteemed poet and novelist Loren Kleinman back to the blog. “The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are...
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