About Me:

Married

Mum of two

Teacher

Animal lover (hoarder!)

Cancer survivor (whoop!)

Procrastinator

Long-term therapy goer

I feel like that list has made me really identifiable! All names and places will be changed to respect both mine and my therapists’ privacy and identities.

I’ve suffered with depression and anxiety, and never feeling quite like I fit in or am good enough for pretty much my whole life. I guess this is part and parcel of what comes with childhood attachment trauma and C-PTSD. I only wish I’d known that this was the problem years ago!

I’ve historically had some pretty crap coping mechanisms at my disposal: I was self-harming and had an eating disorder from my mid-teens til my late thirties but I seem, finally to have moved through that. Recovery is possible!

This blog charts my way through my therapy as I journey down the road to healing… unfortunately there’ve been some pretty significant road bumps along the way and I guess these days this blog deals a lot with harm in therapy.