Heresy in the Heartland

It has been nearly a year since my therapist first used "post-traumatic reaction" to describe my overwhelming stress/anxiety sy...

At some point in my growing up, I realized that my family was dysfunctional. While outsiders saw us as picture-perfect and held us in rega...

Mom, I know you worked hard to be the kind of woman, the kind of mother, you thought you should be. What you accomplished under ...

Continued from Chapter 5: Cognitive Dissonance In the summer, I went away to a real university to study linguistics with Wycliffe Bible...

Continued from Chapter 4: The Lord's Song in a Strange Land I kept playing the piano for the itty-bitty Baptist church until the pa...

Continued from Chapter 3: Discord. IBLP distributed a letter , supposedly signed by Peter Peters, pleading with American churches not ...

Continued from Chapter 2: Musical Chairs . I didn't know about panic attacks yet. I only knew I hated the feelings that preceded w...

Continued from Chapter 1:  The Composition of Anxiety . The anxiety didn't cease when I got my Walkman back--oh, no. That was just...

My daughter announced one day last spring that she'd stopped saying the "under God" part of the Pledge of Allegiance at schoo...

KNIVES by Jeri Lofland One morning in the middle of my childhood, Mom sat my brother and me down in the living room and presented us...

Today I'm sharing some of the activities, articles and websites that I have found most helpful in dealing with complex post-traumatic s...

(Note: For a list of practical resources, please see the  Dealing with Anxiety, Panic, and PTSD  post.) I withdrew from my Spanish II ...