Tag: trauma

• The Healing Arts: When Creativity Becomes a Lifeline

  

  Some of the most creative people I have ever met… were also carrying some of the heaviest burdens. Not always visibly. Not always in ways the world immediately recognized. But quietly, beneath the surface, many of them were navigating things most people around them never fully understood. Things like chronic illness, rare diseases, disability, grief,…

  Amanda Sherrell

  May 14, 2026

  family, Insightful, Inspirational, mental health, Sickness

  ADHD, chronic illness, emotional exhaustion, faith, family, God, grief, hope, inspiration, isolation, mental health, neurodivergence, tools, trauma, writing

• Peace in the Storm: When Your Body Remembers What Your Mind Forgot

  

  There are storms that roar in with wind and thunder, and then there are storms that arrive in silence—the kind that unravel you from the inside out long before you realize something is wrong. Trauma does that. It doesn’t always shout. Sometimes it whispers through numbness, fog, and dissociation—through a body that remembers pain even…

  Amanda Sherrell

  December 11, 2025

  Insightful, Inspirational, mental health

  ANXIETY, Cancer, caregiver, dailyprompt, DEPRESSION, emotionaljourney, faith, God, grief, Healing, Health, hope, Jesus, life, mental, mental health, mentalhealth, New York City, PTSD, self-awareness, sensoryawareness, spirituality, therapeutic, trauma