Tag: project paper birds
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The Fear of Coming Forward: A Never-Before-Seen Clip of Paper Birds

Honoring All Parts of the Journey A short never before seen excerpt from my documentary, Paper Birds! Thought I would share in honor of recently watching an updated cut from my editor. Just a few notes regarding colorgrading and I think that might be a wrap! A little interesting fact, which I’ll relay through a…
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New Resource Hub of Wellness Apps, Podcasts & More for People Healing Trauma

Digital Tools to Guide the Way While the documentary, Paper Birds, aims to start a discussion, the hope is for the film’s website to guide viewers’ next steps. The last addition to the resources tab was a master list of book recommendations directly sourced from trauma survivors across a number of online communities. Now, we’re returning…
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Film Stills In Honor of PTSD Awareness Month

A Short Reflection June is PTSD Awareness Month. In honor of that, I wanted to share a few stills from my upcoming documentary, Paper Birds. I was 20 when I was officially diagnosed with PTSD after a traumatic memory from childhood resurfaced the summer prior. It took me a year and a half to begin…
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Official Paper Birds Posters!

Which Do YOU Prefer? In honor of releasing the first half of Paper Birds last week, I wanted to share the film’s two posters: the original (left) and an alternate (right) I whipped up this weekend. I put a poll on my Instagram and was surprised to find the two were neck and neck as…
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A Sneak Peek At STATS & Paper Birds

A Sneak Peek At STATS & Paper Birds Ah, first new photo in awhile! This image has been in my head for a few days now, and so I finally decided to bring it to life. This is gonna be straight stream of consciousness so I apologize for the lack of poise, but I wanted…
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Healing Fragmented Memories Through EMDR: An Interactive CEU

Healing Fragmentation: The Brain-Body Reconnect I’m honored to be co-presenting a continuing education session for mental health professionals focusing on the neurobiology of trauma and the healing potential of EMDR therapy. As I’ve shared in the past, when I was 19 (almost exactly four years ago now) I developed PTSD after a childhood trauma resurfaced…
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Paper Birds Update & Film Reel

Some General Thoughts A short Paper Birds film reel I threw together the other night that I wanted to share. I thought I’d add some candid thoughts so I can look back on this later: I am so proud of this project! When I was a teen, my projects were pretty short and self-contained. However…
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‘From Millersville To Movie Screen’: Featured By My Alma Mater!

Coming Full Circle With Paper Birds Honored to have been featured today in this piece published by my alma mater, Millersville University of Pennsylvania! Special thanks to Hannah who did a phenomenal job putting this together. Getting to talk about the impact undergrad research has had on me–especially my time spent working on Paper Birds–is…
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Paper Birds: Placed Out

So this idea has been in my head for a bit now! Finally went to Goodwill last night and put it into action. Being out of school for six months now, I’ve started to reflect more on the past four years. When I look at the list of things that feel important, I’ll admit that…
