Mari Stewart

Thinking Too Loud


The Thinking Reed


CPTSD Recovery

  • CPTSD : Life through a straw

    CPTSD : Life through a straw

    Each and everyone of us who walks on this earth has been plopped down at the grand buffet that is life. It is an enormous seemingly endless table. On this table is every variety of taste, sight, sound, smell, experience, joy and sorrow. You are allowed to take whatever you can from the table –…

Non-Fiction

  • In the Trenches: Catching-up

    In the Trenches: Catching-up

    Help! It seems I have fallen arears in the required reading for my genre. Thus, I need a little guidance on what to read. So, let me hear it. What fantasy novel would you recommend from the last decade?

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

  • VSS: Jun. 29, 2022 – Survival

    VSS: Jun. 29, 2022 – Survival

    As a child, survival meant becoming small, silent, erasing myself or breaking off pieces. Wanting was dangerous, get rid of it. Noise was dangerous, get rid of it. Presence was dangerous, get rid of it. Until nothing was left to prove I was there.