A few months ago I learned something about myself that explained almost everything, and instead of relief, my first response was grief. It started simply. My husband and I were talking, the way we do, about how I have always been more sensitive. How I had been told this my whole life. How I had…
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…
TSW, caretaking, and the grief of being a burden I think one of the hardest things about Topical Steroid Withdrawal (TSW) I’ve had to grapple with, and still do – almost daily – aside from the pain, burning, itching, sleeplessness and even shame is knowing and seeing what it does to the people you love…
