Bio: Terre
Well, besides being one of Lili's closest friends—a sister really—Terre is also the mother of a 26 year old son. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia and was a freelance graphic gadabout until she briefly landed in the corporate world as a graphic coordinator. Two and a half yeas was all the corporate tightrope-walking Terre had within her—and she returned to freelance writing and graphics.
Reflecting her love of Jungian psychology, Terre is a Board member of the Jung Society in her city, attending seminars and lectures on all things Jungian. She has been known to watch Robert Johnson and Marion Woodman DVDs until the wee hours of the morning, and yet, falls asleep with ten minutes of network television.
A non-fiction writer, Terre serves as Vice President of Membership for a 600+ member Atlanta Writers Club. Currently, she is working on an anthology of the life she's lived through cooking, reading books and her precious, if outrageous, friends. Granted, most cookbooks are not anthologies and most do not have essays, book reviews or pictures of parrots in them—but this one does.
She also serves on the advisory boards of both the Georgia Coalition Against Domestic Violence and the Wellness and Writing Connections movement.
Along the recovery road, Terre discovered that her sex addict was also a narcissist and became educated about Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) with her typical passionate curiosity.
At her lowest point with her sex addict, Terre was so engulfed in pain that she saw no way out. Although she did not want to physically die, she did not know another way to cease the searing agony that her life had become. Because she went to the brink of suicide with this scourge, she never forgets that this is all too often a life-threatening circumstance. She availed herself of every book, article, therapy, healing modality and available research she could find in her movement away from that brink.
She attended 12-step meetings for partners of sex addicts and served as a co-sponsor with several women in those organizations in the spirit of egalitarian empowerment. When Terre realized that 12-Step recovery for partners of sex addiction did not include the frequent co-diagnosis of NPD, she set out to find ways to address this serious condition and its affects upon PoSAs. Finally, she wanted more than the 12-Step model could offer. One of her former 12-Step groups has broken away from that model and become the first trauma model support group for partners of sex addicts/compulsives. This group is a work-in-progress and we at POSARC will keep you apprised of the exciting modalities and discoveries we encounter.
She coaches partners of sex addicts/NPDs who want a more extensive modality base beyond the 12-step model. A survivor of 'all 31 flavors of abuse' in her words, as well as the product of rabidly religious parents, she tossed everything handed to her out the window and very intentionally built a philosophy of inclusion, empowered cooperation and compassion with relationships being the first priority. "Take my hand, I will lift the veil." might well be her motto.
She has been asked to speak to therapists' groups about her experiences and sought out to write on various addiction and trauma survival issues.
After defecting from corporate life in early 2010, Terre has devoted her efforts to editing and to the co-founding of this website.
Her passions include writing, cooking, reading, coaching PoSAs, and spending time with her beloved parrots and treasured friends.
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