Example: Let’s say A is a female-identifying salesman with a passion for art history and a best friend, and one day, her best friend dies suddenly. Now, not only did A go from being someone with a best friend to being someone without a best friend, but now she’s a female identifying salesman with a passion for art history without a best friend who has come to see death in a very specific and intimate way. So when A gets a new job and has to move cities, you think she takes her job and her hobbies with her, but leaves behind her relationship with death? No way. Whether she knows it or not, this relationship packed its things and hopped on the moving truck in a box labeled “trauma.” But don’t worry, it stuck itself in the back near the keepsakes and holiday decorations.

Katherine MorrisSeptember 25, 2019trauma, moving, processing, moving box, boxes, grief, aces, casa, doula, birth doula, labor doula, birth trauma, sexual trauma, physical trauma, emotional trauma, milestones, transitions

Be a clay pot.

I was at a conference a few years ago. I had an eight-month-old at home whom I had recently stopped breastfeeding (not by choice) and was in the beginning stages of what I would later identify as postpartum depression. There you go, the scene is set.

Katherine MorrisSeptember 17, 2019clay pot, important, priorities, make time, parenthood, conference, trauma