A Bonus Journal Prompt
What makes you feel like your empowered, full self (as opposed to your powerless, fractured self)?
I have experienced many days in the past year (well, the past dozen years or more) in which I have not felt like myself. I have experienced, in a very real way, moments of dissociation, which is a trauma response.
I have left my body. I have felt broken inside and lived in fractured ways. I have been buried by overwhelming pain and rendered paralyzed in…