Still it can be a struggle

I love your blog, Olga. Thank you for the work you do.

"I didn't pay attention to the power of this pain and the memory of the past."

I do the same. It is humbling, great word choice. Wishing you the strength you need as you continue to struggle.

Hello Olga. I discovered your book last weekend and read it cover to cover until I finished it. You're story touched and inspired me. Thank you for being brave enough to return to the dark places of your past in order to share this remarkable journey with all of us. This book will provide hope for so many and in turn will be another tool that will help you in your own process. I'm a marriage and family therapist intern doing a rotation at 1736 Family Crisis Center in Torrance, CA. I work with survivors of domestic violence. If you are ever in LA, I would love to take my group to hear you speak. Or perhaps - dare I be brave enough to ask - would you ever consider coming to us ? In that case, I'd be able to gather not only the clients in group, but the women in our three shelters and 2 other outpatient clinics. Thank you again and best regards to you. Lisa Schmude, MFT I

Olga, Mark Adams is a psychologist here in Houston, a brilliant man who works in the field of trauma and post-traumatic stress. He told me that for abuse victims and people who have suffered tragic loss, each small stressful incident in ordinary life resonates through those past traumatic experiences. So those who have suffered in this way can come to expect, and prepare, to react differently from people who have not suffered great traumas, especially in childhood.

You words resonate with my own journey. Memories or feelings related to the trauma resurface when less expected.