https://soberboots.org/tags/trauma/Recent content in Trauma on Walking in Sober Bootshttps://soberboots.org/soberboots/assets/uploads/2023/07/img_1290.jpghttps://soberboots.org/soberboots/assets/uploads/2023/07/img_1290.jpgHugoenWed, 11 Nov 2020 19:18:10 -0500https://soberboots.org/2020/11/11/how-empathy-and-compassion-helped-me-heal/Wed, 11 Nov 2020 19:18:10 -0500https://soberboots.org/2020/11/11/how-empathy-and-compassion-helped-me-heal/<p>Have you ever been afraid for your life? Not just scared, but really concerned that you just might die — right here, right now.</p> <p>I have.</p> <p>It was a late summer evening and I was 15 years old. School had already started but the sun was still high enough in the sky that we could go out after eating dinner and cruise around town on our bikes — we ate early, 5:30 every day. My brother and I had ridden into town on our freestyle box bikes and met up with our friend Matt to go to Sheetz — Central PA and North Western MD’s incarnation of a 7-Eleven, except they didn’t have Slurpies.</p>https://soberboots.org/2018/04/17/just-like-don/Tue, 17 Apr 2018 12:23:10 -0400https://soberboots.org/2018/04/17/just-like-don/<p><em>This <a href="https://transformation-is-real.com/blog/just-like-don">post</a> was originally published on the site</em> Transformation is Real <em>in the fall of 2016. The curator of that site is looking to transition the site to a new owner and so I&rsquo;m republishing it here to ensure that it remains available moving forward.</em></p>