Tag: trauma

• Interconnected

  

  Trauma is not only stored in the mind, it’s also stored in the body.  In the mind we store developed coping mechanisms, learned behaviors, and habitual surfaced responses. Here in our minds, we lock in this idea of an alternate reality to feed into this fantasy that we are doing better than just okay. However […]

  Sami Zabner

  October 28, 2022

  2022, anxiety, empowerment, mental health, motherhood, trauma, woman

  2022, anxiety, birth, blogging, body, depression, duality, emotional, emotions, life, mental health, mind, mind body, motherhood, movement, nature, poetry, postpartum, pregnancy, rebirth, relatable, story, trauma, woman, woman poetry, womanhood

• In flight

  

  I’ve been on the run for a while and during most of that time I used anything outside of myself as a scapegoat for why I was running. I’d place the blame on the aftermath of a “broken” family unit or the relentless Florida heat, and made many attempts to move out of the sunshine […]

  Sami Zabner

  October 25, 2022

  2022, anxiety, empowerment, expression, motherhood, woman

  2022, anxiety, birth, blogging, depression, duality, earth, emotional, emotions, life, mama, mental health, motherhood, movement, nature, poetry, postpartum, pregnancy, rebirth, relatable, story, trauma, woman, woman poetry, womanhood