Abuse Recovery

From childhood trauma around a troubled father to a string of emotionally, verbally, and mentally abusive relationships, I've been through the wringer. But I've been doing the work around it all for years now, and I realize how my coping mechanisms created my tolerance for and attraction to awful people and their awful behavior or how, in some ways, I was always looking for a savior not knowing how to save myself. I'm working on rewiring my brain (literally, check out research on the "trauma-wounded brain"), and I'm sharing my story with the world in the hopes that anyone else who's been there -- or who is still there -- can find their way through.