Sitemap - 2024 - Danielle’s Newsletter

My Interview with Inspired Woman Podcast

Trauma and Time

Control Issues Include Over-Helping

When you realize: your soulmate is you..

#Wedorecover

9 years ago today

Six Months Sober

I am what my mother wanted for me

The root of the retort

October complexities

The Extrovert Becomes Much, Much More Introverted

Dear Life

Out of Darkness Walk

The Sparkle in Life

September is Recovery Month

The Serenity Prayer

Healthy vs. Unhealthy Shame

How Trauma and Grief Interweave

Rates of Suicide are Increasing

Interview

Increasing Rates of Suicide

"He'll regret it one day..."

The mothers & their love & sacrifice:

My trip to the Big Easy

Lifequake

Pain and Power

Pain and Power:

What you can't do....

Writing, writing, writing

The problem with the "Committing"

"God will not tempt you beyond your control:"

I turned 41

Litigators of Others' Pain

They're all dead

They're all dead

The Discontentment of Those

The Discontentment of Those

Your Earliest Memory

Your Earliest Memory

Audio book

Inviting: Any first draft readers?

Save yourself

How Little We Really Know

Lover of Stories

Trauma that happens over time

"I don't know how to live"

My book is materializing

Mama always said:

How Shame works:

The Comparison of Trauma

The comparison of trauma

In My Liminal Space

Violating the Life Contract:

Violating the (Life) Contract

The 'S' Word:

When you hear of another one..

Our Choice: What we do with our trauma

Our intense Emotional Illiteracy

Paths of Healing & Breaking Cycles

The 'S' Word

The Family Disease

National Semi Colon Awareness Day

National Semi Colon Awareness Day

I'm sorry to complain about my family

The Vanity of Narcissists

Anhedonia & Alexythmia

What is it that you are desperate to hear?

What is it that you really need to hear?

Grief: The Weight and Burden

Grief: The Weight, the Burden

Men's Bullshit

Neuro-divergent because of my PTSD brain

To the Panama teacher who said:

Who [gets to] calls themselves a grief expert

Dumb Shit People Say

Grief

Dear Narcissistic ex

Dear Narcissist Ex

Grief:

Little 't' trauma distinctions are maddening to me

Self Compassion as Imperative for Trauma Survivors

On Being a Cycle Breaker

I'm a Cycle Breaker

As the appointed trauma judge

As an appointed trauma judge

To my 5 year and 12 year old selves

What I would want my five and twelve year old selves to know and not know

Are we asking the right questions?

Rethinking "addictive personality"

Alchemizing Trauma

Striving for Alchemy of Trauma

Survivors' Guilt, Waves of Grief & Intergenerational Trauma

Survivors guilt', Grief Waves & Intergenerational Trauma

Imposter Syndrome:

Imposter syndrome

Emotional wounds, Intergenerational trauma

Stories:

Stories are why I'm here

Branching out with the writing

On only putting up pictures of my brother

Putting up pictures of my brother

"What if..."

What if...

Trauma begets Trauma

"You're so lucky...

We are more

We are more than how we die

Interoception

Interoception

I am my mother's legacy

I am my mother's legacy

My brother

I recover out loud:

I recover out loud:

"Are you going alone?"

"Are you going alone?"

Naval-gazing

My Letter to other [family] suicide survivors

My letter to other [family] suicide survivors

Sturmfrei

Sturmfrei:

Storying and Stories

Stories and the Storying

The Givers and the Takers

Haunted by Stuff

Nullipara:

Reimagining myself: Sober Curious

The judging of the mentally ill

How much unprocessed trauma affects us:

When the source of humor

Love really is all around

The 'Other' Significant Others

A different type of mourning:

A different type of mourning:

Complex Feelings Elicited by the--

Feeling a bit Turtle-esque these days:

When a kid carries shame of home

My Little Life

My Little Life

I Found my Soulmate:

Did we choose this beforehand?

Resilient me

What Trauma can teach us:

Strength & Beauty of women's friendships

Shame

Shame:

When words don't match the actions

Rethinking Addiction

Anger

Dysregulated Nervous Systems

My Attachment Styles and other Therapy Insights

Anger:

My decision to remain Childless:

Trauma isn't on the periphery:

Addiction also defined as:

Etymology of Emotion

The Etymology of Emotion

When Divinity Doesn't Intervene

the Sacred Nature of Stories

The Sacred Nature of Stories:

Growing Still, Amidst Darkness

Like a Monstera: Pushing Through Darkness

Life is a paradox

Life is a paradox

Made to Feel

I am a paid writer:

Winter:

My New Year's Goal:

C-PTSD and PTSD

"I'm interesting"

Depression Lies

"Depression Lies"

Anesthetizing the pain

I know your life sucks...

Listening to the sage and powerful advice

Lessons: Self Love

Why I have to write my story:

The worst thing happened to me...