Tagged: trauma
Five lessons from five years of Rebel Therapy
It’s somehow been five years this month since I started Rebel Therapy, my therapeutic practice supporting queers, creatives and non-conformists of all backgrounds towards healing, recovery and better mental health. Half a decade and literally thousands of client sessions later, here’s five of the things that have stuck with me most so far…
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Chaos and adrenaline: on being two years sober
Lately I’ve needed to take things slow, and that’s something I haven’t always been good at. Chaos, on the other hand…
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In the Dream House
“The Dream House was never just the Dream House. It was, in turn, a convent of promise (herb garden, wine, writing across the table from each other), a den of debauchery (fucking with the windows open, waking up with mouth on mouth, the low, insistent murmur of fantasy), a haunted house (none of this can really be happening), a prison (need to get out need to get out), and, finally, a dungeon of memory. In dreams it sits behind a green door, for reasons you have never understood. The door was not green.” — In the Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado
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