Mari Stewart

Thinking Too Loud


The Thinking Reed


CPTSD Recovery

  • In the Trenches: CPTSD and the Status Quo

    In the Trenches: CPTSD and the Status Quo

    What do you do? Sit, patiently for the inevitable to descend or do you send the gentle ripple out into the world that will reflect back to you as a crushing blow? It’s like a game of Russian roulette, except every barrel is loaded.

Non-Fiction

  • In the Trenches: A Bitter Sting of Rejection Hurts

    In the Trenches: A Bitter Sting of Rejection Hurts

    Some days rejection hurts. Being told no just plain old up and hurts. No other way to explain it. Why this one I wonder. I suspect it is because it was one of those hard researched carefully scrutinized choices that I really developed a ‘good feeling about’. You know the ones I’m talking about. The…

CPTSD Research

  • Further study on CPTSD and BPD – Part 2

    Further study on CPTSD and BPD – Part 2

    Continuing the dissection of this massive study which was featured in Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation Vol. 8 Part two of the study conducted by Julian D. Ford & Christine A. Courtois focuses on the Clinical phenomenology of BPD, PTSD, and cPTSD. This section of the article is data dense. Its focus is on the prevalence…

Fiction

  • Rise Of The Ranger: Tropes and Grit Sans Heart

    Rise Of The Ranger: Tropes and Grit Sans Heart

    I’m trying to set some quick thoughts down about this book, and I’m finding it nearly impossible. Mainly because I’m trying to remember the story. That’s not a good sign, I only read the book two weeks ago.