so often victims end up unnecessarily prolonging their abuse because they buy into the notion that their abuser must be coming from a wounded place and that only patient love and tolerance (and lots o...
To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.
Getting in touch with the lovelessness within and letting that lovelessness speak its pain is one way to begin again on love's journey. In relationships, whether heterosexual or homosexual, the partne...
Fear of breaking family loyalty is one of the greatest stumbling blockages to recovery. Yet, until we admit certain things we would rather excuse or deny, we cannot truly begin to put the past in the...
Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastro...
Some scars don't hurt. Some scars are numb. Some scars rid you of the capacity to feel anything ever again.
The past is behind us," said Boudicca,"but the difficulty there is we keep looking over our shoulders.
It is not the the bruises on the body that hurt. It is the wounds of the heart and the scars on the mind.
In the tunnel where I was raped, a tunnel that was once an underground entry to an amphitheater, a place where actors burst forth from underneath the seats of a crowd, a girl had been murdered and dis...