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...
by johannasr2 | Jul 31, 2024 | Change, Family, Feelings, Love, Parenting, Relationships
That is the question for young people today. I’m asking to comment on this question, as it is one that has occurred in my home many times. The very first thing I want to mention is this, there is no greater love and no greater commitment than that of a parent to a...
by johannasr2 | May 29, 2024 | Change, Family, Fibromyalgia, My Illness, Psychology
I learned to grieve early. But not about me. I learned to grieve about relationships, losing them. And the worst, losing people I loved. Sometimes, as difficult, was losing people I hated. I quickly lost people that I had spent lifetimes with. We all changed; we went...
