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Tag: trauma

  • Another earthquake for Christchurch

    Christchurch had another earthquake yesterday; the biggest in quite a while and just another in the earthquake sequence which began on the 4th September 2010. I remember that first one well. It’s the reason we now live in Scotland. It was the middle of the night and we were all asleep. The sound is more terrifying…

  • Up in flames

    This is my first post on my new blog. I started writing a blog because I didn’t know how else to deal with my anxiety after the Christchurch earthquakes. Writing about my fears helped me immensely. It was an awful time. I couldn’t sleep at night and I was always on edge, waiting for that…

  • One year on

    We were interviewed by a journalist from The Herald this week and there’s a photo of us in the paper today: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/christchurch-earthquake/news/article.cfm?c_id=1502981&objectid=10787401 He was here for an hour talking to us and it’s funny seeing which bits he chose to put into the article. He described me as “permanently jittery”, ha, ha. I wouldn’t describe…