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I make Orthodox Christian icons, and landscape painting, carve stone and stone bas relief icons.

...when you are hurt so easily by the people that you "love".

This was such an heart rending book. Memoirs are interesting from the point of view of what is in it and what has been left out. I don't want to spoil the book for anyone by saying too much now.

Thanks for the reminder!

I am coming to the same conclusion that burdening others with my PTSD is very selfish. When I try to explain some behavior my H has disagreed with in therms of dissociation etc. He has decided he doesn't need to listen to me anymore. He has become so much more controlling, I don't know if I can...

At first, I didn't know what to post about Angela's Ashes. I am very visual and so coould 'picture' a lot of the scenes. Though it is a memoir, it felt like fiction. I understood the stresses of poverty and death. I had served the slums of NYC as an architectural designer doing renovations...

All children have sexual curiosity. I can remember my brother and his friend having pissing contests into our little stream and wondering what would happen if they tried the old vacumn. We had to throw that one out. The girl cousins looked at each other just to see what was down there and...

YUP, I've been there a few times. Once was at a friend's graduation. Where sitting in a stadium way high up, I yearned so many goals and choices that parts of me were quite adament about. It is work to learn to communicate within one's self. Some people use a pad of lined paper and each piece...

I agree with the concept that a child who harms anyone before 1st grade is acting out the same things that happened to him. 6 is younger than the age when children can tell right from wrong. For example, Catholics do not give children communion until they have studied it. Their first communion...

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Dear Quietpool, Welcome to this forum. You are quite right about being able to access the depth of experiences people with PTSD have. You will find plenty of support as time goes on. In the mean time, look around the forums and the threads. You will find people in situations you could help or be...

Are we on Angela's ashes now?

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Dear KP, I'm sorry you have been having so much trouble. You must be tired from all the blood loss. Please, drink plenty of fluids and take some iron if your doctor agrees. A pelvic ultrasound is a good idea. It is not painful and should show the doctors what is needed to be done. Pre-op, as far...

That is just delightful. Thank you for the laugh!!!!!

Daffodils with long trumpets. I like to make them into Princess Dolls. Pick your daffy keeping about 1 inch of the stem. Take off one petal gently and make a small slit in it about 1/2 an inch down. Put it on the stem with short end facing forward. Now shorten the petals on either side of the...

"None of us ever know all the possible courses our lives could have and maybe should have taken. It's probably just as well. Some secrets are meant to stay secrets forever. Just ask Pandora." This is the last couple of lines in The Husband's Secret. This made me so sad. Would I have been...

It has been a long time since I have felt sincerely and genuinely happy!!! :) I am no longer sad, lonely and tired, (which is the way I felt for a very long time).:cool: I am so happy for you. What a lot of work you have done on your life to be where you are now. Like a farmer plowing his...

I have my resolve back after seeing my T. I confronted in EMDR a woman who traumatized me with her anger. I'm still 'sore and hurt' but I expect this will waft away in its own time.

I hope beyond hope that this is true. I have seen some evidence of that. But then there are terribly painful incidents with a very angry 'guests' who beat me badly for a sort of warm up and not being able to breath when he shoved. I hope remembering just one of those can stand for all the other...

?neat, tidy bear??? Oh, here are two choices. Winnie the Pooh and Padington Bear. Any other bears willing to come forward?

Procrastinating. I should be working on my commissions. I am so late because of the year it took to recover from a broken ankle surgery to stabilize it with plates and screws. Broken wrist's bones at the head of the ulna and radius dissolved and had to be replaced with sterile bone and more...

Dear Digger, Once again, I thank you. I thought my H and I had a hard time establishing a common language. I never thought I would have the pleasure of doing it again. He is from India and speaks perfect Queen's English with a huge vocabulary. I am English speaking American from New England. My...

OK, folks, here is another phrase that I do not understand. p.278 Rachael and Cecilia are having tea. rachael has been talking about Janie. " I really don't know why I am rambling on like this. You're probably thinking I've lost the plot." I don't think she...

I have an everyday look normal part of me too. I call her Pollyanna because she always sees the good in things. I think she developed as a child who had to go to school and do sleep-overs with friends. I know that it is lonely and unreal feeling when we feel we need to hide our pain and...