Matt Pappas

One of the exercises I did just this past week, was to write a letter to my inner child. It turned out to be quite an enlightening experience. It’s part of the Courage to Heal…

One of the things that my therapist drives home every chance she gets, is grounding skills and coping skills. Before I get into why Music is such a great coping skill for me, I should…

I try to never look a gift horse in the mouth when it comes to someone who’s putting forth the effort to encourage me in any manner. In fact, I’m grateful for it usually, or at least I…

The first time I was diagnosed with this, I had no idea what in the world Dissociation even was, let alone realizing that there were different types, too. When I first heard the words, you’ve…

So, one of the things I was thinking about on the way home from a therapy session, my 2nd of this week, was a question surrounding my incessant need to embrace flashbacks… Left therapy session tonight with a…

Often times in my weekly sessions, I talk about how these feelings of poor self esteem, anxiety, flashbacks, worry, being a victim, feeling damaged,  seem to never go away. Will they ever subside, will I…

One of the things I’ve been struggling with in recent months is why I feel this need to hang on to the past trauma. Why do I want to keep reliving the pain, trying to…

  Last night might have been one of the worst attempts at sleeping that I think I’ve experienced in a very long time. Normally I don’t have much of a problem crashing out at night.…