On this podcast your host, Jill Riley explores what faith can look like after trauma. Jill is an author and pastor. She is also a trauma survivor and lives with Complex PTSD, depression, anxiety, and a dissociative disorder. Her [...]
I bought a dodo . . . And other things that aren’t true. I received an email today from an unknown source requesting my bank account information so they “can do a bank transfer for the payment of the [...]
I’ve been there. It’s a surreal landscape. Terrifying. Disconcerting. Depression is a blinder against all hope. It blocks out all light and confuses the senses. You feel the confusion of weightlessness, nothingness, and at the same time feel as [...]
DID—Formerly Multiple Personality Disorder I’ve watched all the movies and tv shows about Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), formerly known as multiple personality disorder. The screen has brought us Sybil, Three Faces of Eve and the United States of Tara. [...]
Much has been in the news lately about forgiveness. I have my own battles with the concept. I have been asked many time how I can forgive those who wounded me, stole my innocence and wielded the Bible as an [...]
For many people the holidays can be a mirage of joy and peace. The bustle of the season does not shimmer with happiness, instead it just highlights their daily struggle with metal illness. From where they sit while “everyone” [...]
As if regulatory day to day concerns and tasks aren’t already mind boggling, the holidays can add to the overwhelm. The season presents us with the challenge of limited time with an intimidating number of items getting added to our calendars [...]
Hope Hope can be in short supply when you or a loved one is facing a mental illness. In the following podcast Jill Riley is real about her own mental health diagnoses and how she fights for hope in [...]
Defying the Odds One of my favorite characters in childhood literature was Amelia Bedelia, the bumbling maid who made lots of mistakes but always managed to come out on the right side of them. I loved Pippi Longstocking, who [...]
I had a mental breakdown. Fueled by the stress of many jobs, family and internal emotional distress I completely broke down. I couldn’t concentrate on anything. I couldn’t remember conversations I was in the middle of. I had trouble [...]
