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Smoky Vision

By: redtentwomen October 24, 2022September 24, 2022

Monthly Themes, relationshipsDeath, Denial, family communication, Fear, Losing a parent, lung cancer, Maryhelen Martens, smoking2 Comments

“There will be a procedure. They are checking out what is going on in his lungs,” she mentions one rainy April evening. My shoe heels click as we walk down the sterile, grey halls of the big city hospital. Someone makes a joke to try to ease the tension we feel in our bodies. My…

Cheers to the Now.

By: redtentwomen August 29, 2016August 28, 2016

relationshipsBravery, Denial, elderly parents, Hope, parenting adult children, Tracy Johnson, trauma, trust16 Comments

The rain came in sheets, weighing down the leaves and rushing down the gutters of the house.

Mimicking Bravery

By: redtentwomen July 29, 2016July 28, 2016

Day to DayAlan Jones, Bravery, Counseling, Denial, Jonathan Martin, Narrative therapy, Therapy, Tracy Johnson, trauma16 Comments

Walking up the stairs towards the 4th grade classroom I take in the architecture and the smells of this old place, the large staircase with it’s carved handrail and the wooden door to the classroom feel like they belong in an old movie.