by Talia Fletcher | Jul 27, 2021 | Blog
Snarky Thoughts Good grief! What is it that I have to do now? I am proud of my husband, but why do I need to go through a week-long course for spouses? What am I going to learn? How to be a good spouse? And on and on, my snarky thoughts continued as my amygdala tried...
by Talia Fletcher | Aug 12, 2020 | Blog
Rerouting is Resilience In last week’s blog post, Neuroplasticity: Evidence of Resilient Brains and My Father Broke My Brain, I wrote about how abuse modifies the physical structure of the brain. Those modifications help the child to get through the abuse. But...
by Talia Fletcher | Aug 7, 2020 | Blog
Broken Brain “My father broke my brain.” That is a direct quote from me to my therapist. Actually, both of my parents had a hand in breaking my brain. That is how I feel. Broken is how I have always felt. If you shake me, you would hear all of the...
by Talia Fletcher | Aug 5, 2020 | Blog
Resilience Last week in Resiliency: Fighting Emotional Abuse, I wrote about the concept of resilience. And how I taught myself to be resilient while growing up in an abusive home. I had no idea that was what I was doing then. I was simply trying to survive by any...