by Nina Ajdin Over the past few weeks, I’ve been sharing pieces of something that has been slowly taking shape inside me for years. At first, I thought I was simply writing about chronic illness. About topical steroid withdrawal. About grief, trauma, sensitivity, survival. But underneath all of those experiences was a deeper pattern, a…
What twelve years of TSW taught me about healing, and myself by Nina Twelve years is a long time to be at war with yourself. I didn’t know that’s what I was doing. I thought I was healing. I thought I was fighting for my health, my skin, my life back, and I was, in…
As I approach my 10 year TSW (topical steroid withdrawal) anniversary on June 15th, sitting in my bed – the bed that has been both my prison and sanctuary on and off throughout these years, in a body that has felt more like a cage than anything else. The body that, in the present moment,…
