Tag: healing

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    You’re Not Broken—You’re Becoming Whole Again

    For many women who’ve experienced emotional, verbal, or physical abuse, there often comes a moment when the dust starts to settle, and the silence that follows is almost louder than the pain. In that silence, a question arises: “Who am I now?” It’s a haunting question—especially when your self-worth has been tangled in years of…

  • A Little About Dreams

     am a firm believer in understanding dreams.  They can teach us things about ourselves.  They can show us areas in which we need more healing.  They can help us to process things that are incredibly difficult to process.  They also can bring us comfort when we need it most. On February 27, it will be…

  • You Deserve Compassion & Kindness!

    Once someone has been abused, often they quietly & obliviously develop the misguided belief that they are unworthy of compassion & kindness.  Most likely this comes from their abusers constantly telling them that they are a burden, they’re stupid, do nothing but cause problems & other things that instill a deep root of toxic shame…

  • About Ruminating Thoughts

    Ruminating thoughts are very common after someone has experienced trauma, in particular in cases of PTSD & C-PTSD.  They are when a person can’t stop thinking about their awful experiences. Like many people, I experienced them once C-PTSD developed, but I still had a slight degree of control over them.  Sometimes, I could force them…

  • Some Inspiration For Abuse Victims

    I recently caught a show on the Oxygen network about the Cleveland strangler, Anthony Sowell.  I believe the show was called, “Snapped Notorious: The Cleveland Strangler.” If you don’t know him, he was a serial rapist & murderer in whose Cleveland, Ohio home the bodies of 11 women were found.  I found the show fascinating. …

  • The Heaviest Load

    “A stone is heavy and sand is weighty, But a fool’s wrath is heavier than both of them.” – Proverb Stone and sand weighing each are allusions to illustrate that there is no thing of no weight in this world. Stone and sand are used to build houses. A person who does not want to lift…

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