Why healing must make room for medicine, meaning, and the whole person. I grew up in Sarajevo. There is a place in that city known as where East meets West. Stand facing one direction and you see Ottoman influence. Turn the other way and it becomes Austro-Hungarian. The change is visibly immediate. I knew of…
I never knew who I was. Not in the way people say it when they’re young and still figuring themselves out. I mean something quieter than that. Something eerier. If you had asked me, before TSW, before the burning, before everything, I would have given you an answer. I would have told you what I…
My definition of healing has continuously shifted throughout my healing journey with Topical Steroid Withdrawal. When I first started TSW over a decade ago, my definition of healing was having clear and essentially perfect skin. I never expected my journey would take as long as it has, and that I would still be dealing with…
