The war is against children, and all the other wars are just a shadow of the war on children.
At first, like a lot of trauma survivors, I was impatient and wanted immediate results. Once I caught myself in this behavior, I realized that it takes consistent commitment to heal patterns. After th...
It is a political fight between a group of well-financed, well-organized people whose freedom, livelihood, finances, reputations, or liberty is being threatened by disclosures of child sexual abuse an...
There are edges around the black and every now and then a flash of color streaks out of the gray. But I can never really grasp any of the slivers of memories that emerge.
Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.
When you go through a traumatic event, there's a lot of shame that comes with that. A lot of loss of self-esteem. That can become debilitating.
Traumas produce their disintegrating effects in proportion to their intensity, duration and repetition. (1909)
Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.
In 1973, Jan Erik Olsson walked into a small bank in Stockholm, Sweden, brandishing a gun, wounding a police officer, and taking three women and one man hostage. During negotiations, Olsson demanded m...
We raise predators by treating children as prey.
Then I drop to my knees because I can't find a decent enough reason not to, because reluctance rarely stands a chance against repeated behavior.
And then things would be fine. Then I'd be fine.
There are no injuries that run so deep that one can't add insult to them and make them feel even worse.
We are creatures built on a house of cards of language.
I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.
Get acquainted with your shadow, or find yourself surprised when a crisis emerges.
I have suffered through enough illnesses, trauma and heartbreak to finally understand that life will keep moving forward inexorably, if terribly at times. I am starting to realize that it can be delig...
The purpose of the false self is to defend against pain - not deal with reality
To thoughtful natures, events are like depth charges: the surface is calm, but the shock spreads further.
This last best luck of all: that earth should gape for me when my great deeds were ended.