by johannasr2 | Apr 24, 2025 | Addiction, Change, Communication, Family, Feelings, Parenting Adults
Notes from a Parent Realizing a Child is Addicted and Wishing her own Mother was Alive / Circa 2001 This book is not about my mother, who has been the sole subject of my musings for more than five years; it is about raising children and being human. I am engaging in...
by johannasr2 | Mar 15, 2025 | Childhood Abuse, Family, Feelings, Incest, Response to Trauma
When you are the molester, and the abuser, this is what is true about you, here are the things that must be true in order for you to be the perpetrator: You want power. The reason for your power absolutism is that you can say to your victim, “I don’t care what you...
by johannasr2 | Feb 18, 2025 | Childhood Abuse, Family, Mental Illness, Poverty;
What American Poverty is and is...
by johannasr2 | Feb 16, 2025 | Childhood Abuse, Family, Mental Illness, Poverty;, Response to Trauma
Which is nothing like African poverty or Russian poverty, it is not to be compared with other countries. This document is about American poverty only. “I was poor” is a refrain that I hear a lot from kids, from young people and definitely from anyone born in the 80s...
by johannasr2 | Nov 19, 2024 | Change, Family, Fibromyalgia, Parenting Adults, Psychology
The overall secret sauce to great holidays is planning. I want to say that there are some things that you can do and I am sure that there are. I also want to say that part of coping with the holidays is to understand that you will be very tired when it’s over....
by johannasr2 | Nov 4, 2024 | Childhood Abuse, Family, Incest, Psychology, Response to Trauma
Johanna Baynard Oct 26, 2024 Have you ever looked at someone’s school pictures and noticed a sequence of pictures where a dramatic change has occurred? It doesn’t look like a good change. The first picture is a laughing child and then the next picture is a not-child...
