Hi! I’m a cookie-cutter Volvo driving soccer mom (and if you believe that I have some ocean-front property in Kentucky to sell you)!

The “ABCs”

I’m a naturalized citizen; child of the 80s with a new millennium mindset. I have two tattoos with plans to get more, six piercings with plans to get more, a mostly monochromatic wardrobe, and multi-chromatic hair.

I am a Mom.
My son was born in 2006.
I helm a dual faith household. My husband is Catholic. I am Pagan. We were married in 2005. Neither of us has a problem with the other person’s faith. Religion is not a taboo topic in our household. If you think this is somehow going to traumatize our son or jeopardize the sanctity of our relationship or that either or both of us is going to Hell, just do everyone a favor and stop reading this blog now.

I work from home with my friend and room mate Kore doing tarot and making beaded and semi-precious jewelry. I also work by myself doing some mercenary blogging and some website design due to my chronic illness.

The Blog

The current header on the blog is from this piece:

Cerulean Echoes by ~ Duskfalls on deviantART which I converted into this header using Photoshop and some skills as well as brushes from Obsidian Dawn and a great deal of patience.

The Clarification

I have a veritable alphabet of diagnoses that I’m trying to work with: DID, PTSD, MPD, BPD, FMS & CFS. What do these mean? They mean that I have multiple personalities, post traumatic stress, bipolar-mixed, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue.

It means I have a therapist, a psychiatrist and a general practitioner/family doctor as well as a very supportive family and group of close friends both off and online whom we are very grateful for.

It means I’m done trying to keep my psychiatric blog and my regular blog separate from each other because in order to really get this healing to stick I need to be able to acknowledge and accept both of these portions of my life at the same time because if I’m trying to balance motherhood, married life, work, home, finances and being at least eight people in one body I don’t need to make life any harder for me than that already is.

I thank those of you who stick with me on this journey and can accept these things about me enough to stick around, subscribe and work with me.

The Disclaimer

This is not the first step. This is the third or the fourth, or maybe it’s the fiftieth. It’s hard to tell at times.

Still it’s big. Every time it’s mentioned this becomes bigger. It starts to balloon out of control. It threatens to become this all consuming monster. I sprout extra heads, huge maws that want to devour my universe. We seek to tame them, but none among us knows how. Hopefully things will come together in this blog.

This is a blog, not for the close-minded. This is a blog for the other-minded. The content may leave a most unpleasant taste in your mouth, if you are able at all to chew your way through it. This is because it will touch on matters some may consider supernatural or paranormal, as well as matters familial, psychological, therapeutic, traumatic and otherworldly.

It has no feet in the ground, it might not have feet at all. It reaches under the oceans, across planes of existence, through the stars and towards other worlds. It grasps at straws, and hopes to find gold. In short if you have a hard time seeing the wood from the trees it’s probably best to set up camp in some other corner of the internet and forget that you ever saw this place.

Flames will be used to light the ritual fire and roast marshmallows.