Originally published on medium.com on February 23, 2016 By Hanna Brooks Olsen Why do you always engage them? If you didn’t engage them, they wouldn’t keep talking to you.” It is nighttime and it is bitterly cold and I’m at a bus stop with my then-boyfriend. We’ve just left a…
Originally published on Amyoes.com on December 28, 2015 By Amy Oestreicher. What is it about trauma that makes us continually panic after the trauma is over? I’m reading Waking the Tiger by Peter Levine again to further understand why a danger that is no longer present can have an affect…
Originally published on Trigger Points Anthology on December 8, 2015 By Dawn Daum. Introducing Joyelle Brandt, co-editor of the Trigger Points Anthology & author of Staring at the Sun and Tainted. It’s a fine line This tight-rope walk Of delving in But not too far Digging down But not too…
Originally published on Trigger Points Anthology on November 24, 2015 By Dawn Daum. Introducing Trigger Points contributor Kelly Wilson, author of Sorry-in-a-Sack Self. 1. What was the most surprising thing about becoming a parent? How little sleep I could get and still survive. I don’t think I slept for five…
