Tag Archives: survivor

2017: Bring It!

Posted on January 4, 2017 by DMW

2016 wasn’t a tragic year – good things happened, great things even – but damn did it also suck beyond the telling of it. I pretty much covered that in my end of year review. I faced kind of my … Continue reading →

Posted in Health, Home, Journal, Life, marriage, Medical, mental health, Personal, Relationships, Thoughts | Tagged "personal growth", "year in review", 2017, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”, C-PTSD, coping, fierce, fighter, goals, pain, physical well being, progress, stomach, survivor, ulcers | Leave a comment

Breaking My Silence: A Dream Publication – Let’s Talk About An Unspeakable

Posted on December 19, 2016 by DMW

On October 31, one of my most personal essays was published at one of my dream publications: The Manifest-Station. I was going to share it, but I was sick. Preoccupied. I had stuff going on. It was only a week … Continue reading →

Posted in Halloween, History, Home, Journal, LGBT, Life, mental health, Parenting, Personal, Publishing, Relationships, Thoughts, Writing | Tagged "child abuse", abuse, breaking my silence, dream publication, growing up, milestone, mother, PTSD, snapshot, survivor, The Manifest-Station | Leave a comment

A Bad Dream

Posted on February 25, 2016 by DMW

I woke up feeling the heavy weight of panic in my chest as my head jerked quickly to the right. I saw the back of my husband’s head and our dog, Angel, sleeping between us, her butt against my husband’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Health, Life, Personal, Relationships, Thoughts | Tagged advocate, anxiety, assault, bad dream, crime, mental health, nightmare, PTSD, survivor, trauma, victim | Leave a comment

Domestic Violence: It’s Not A Women’s Issue, It’s A Human Issue

Posted on October 13, 2015 by DMW

October has always been a big month for me. It is LGBT History Month (Pride is something else yo). In college and graduate school there were midterms and big-deal projects. But October is also something else – it’s Domestic Violence … Continue reading →

Posted in Equality, Journal, Personal, Relationships, Social Justice, Thoughts | Tagged "child abuse", "domestic violence", abuse, Domestic Violence Awareness Month, human issue, male victim, PTSD, same-sex relationship violence, survivor, victim | Leave a comment

Out Of My Life… Three Years Later

Posted on August 25, 2015 by DMW

On June 16, 2012 I saw my mother for the very last time. It was brief; she was just dropping off my sister, thirty minutes late. I was getting married and my sister was my flower maiden, she was going … Continue reading →