by Donna Syed | Truthfairy Guide | Jan 24, 2017 | Truthfairy Project
I’m writing this one because my best friend will stop talking to me very soon if I don’t. This isn’t the first time I’ve written about my Complex PTSD recovery process, but it’s the first time I’m sharing about it in any real-time...
by Donna Syed | Truthfairy Guide | Jan 15, 2017 | Truthfairy Project
Seeing my father lying in a casket was as surreal for me as reuniting with him had been just the month before. Neither seemed real. Somehow, I still finished my last semester of high school. Trying to save my mother from being beaten by my father during a drunken,...
by Donna Syed | Truthfairy Guide | Nov 30, 2016 | abuse survivor, Awaken Women : the Secret Salon, Dance, Truthfairy Project
Once upon a time, a long while ago . . . a Turkish woman taught me everything I could learn of her dance, and from the ancient dances of our women people. She told me stories of how their melodies crossed over the winds of the seas and volumes of her own stories,...