Healing Waters

I experienced it all first: the trauma, the aftermath, high highs and low lows, turbulence, struggle, ego deaths, shifting world views, emotions that seemed to come out of nowhere, and emotions that clearly came from triggering experiences. A trauma like sexual assault is completely jarring. I experienced it like a death, the death of the girl I was before the assault. In fact, mourning her sudden and unexpected demise were some of the hardest parts of healing. But maybe I’ll