Year: 2025

• The Cult of Anne Boleyn (And Why I’m Over It)

  

  Let me start with a confession: I am so tired of hearing about Anne Boleyn. There. I said it. Okay actually two confessions, the second being this maaay have been written during a drug induced exhaustion during a recent hospital stay due to a pretty sever health flare up BUT it happened, so here it…

  jessicawoodville

  May 24, 2025

  Personal Essays

  ancestry, DeconstructingHistory, herstory, HistoricalCritique, history, selective history, Tudors

• Finding Healing After Family Turmoil: A Journey to Self-Recovery

  

  It’s a strange thing, being on the “other side” of survival (other side in quotes because honestly, I am still mostly surviving, not quite thriving) Life often gives you a brief moment of quiet, only to hand you the daunting task of healing. Recently, I received a comment from a reader that resonated deeply with…

  jessicawoodville

  May 21, 2025

  Adverse Childhood Experiences, Survival and Healing

  Adverse Childhood Experiences, childhood trauma, connection, cptsd, effects of trauma, family, family troubles, healing, healing after survival, mental health, ptsd, relationships, resilience, survival, trauma, trauma brain, trauma recovery, trauma talk

• We’re Not Broken – The System Is

  

  “Healing isn’t just about surviving the past—it’s about building the future. And I refuse to let my past be the thing that steals my future away.” I am a trauma survivor, a mother, and an advocate. And like so many others carrying the weight of early adversity, I have spent years trying to heal in…

  jessicawoodville

  May 20, 2025

  Adverse Childhood Experiences, Advocacy, Survival and Healing

  Adverse Childhood Experiences, Cendie Stanford, cptsd, healing, medical gaslighting, mental health, ptsd, survival, therapy, toxic stress, trauma, Trauma in Healthcare, trauma informed, trauma recovery