Call Me Mental
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Cover of denial.
Family and society's image and belief in its purity or innocence, is the biggest wall a victim faces. We have all bought into the belief that ALL families are safe harbors, all families are love energies…all families have our… Continue reading
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By Being Me.
I really enjoyed listening to Melody Beattie's book "The New Codependency" she wrote this many years after her best seller, "Codependency No More". Codependency is much more pervasive than one might think and it has very little to do with… Continue reading
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Through your feelings!
I have been listening to Melody Beattie's book, "The New Codependency" and I am finding many things that I agree with or that I am surprised in hearing. Like "The opposite of Repression is Expression"…she is talking about feelings. When… Continue reading
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Can’t stay in Reality.
One of my major hurdles, was to let go of was denial. Denial was a place I lived for 46 years…and, for the past 10 awake. It has been hard for me to explain how I choose denial over… Continue reading
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Being Visibly Me
This blog post has stayed with me…."It's Safe to Be Visible" ( read it here at http://travelingev.com/2014/09/its-safe-to-be-visible/ ) I consider these two sentences very telling…and familiar. “It’s safe to be myself,” and “It’s safe to be visible.” What is more alarming is the… Continue reading
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Have its way.
I have tried to write about the affects to a person who has been brainwashed…how it appears that the mind has been changed. But, what I am coming to believe, is that when your choices put someone/something first….you, yourself,aren't clearly… Continue reading
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PTSD in Adult Survivors of Child Abuse (re-post)
This post is the most popular on my blog. Every day, many times a day, someone clicks on it. Below is a post from my brother's blog. I highly recommend reading the article he found on PTSD in Adult… Continue reading
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With his tears…
In a conversation about Robin Williams, it was brought up that while the spot light is shining today, in a year the light will have long moved on. And, it will leave back in the darkness, those who struggle with… Continue reading
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Half of truth lives.
I had begun a blog about 100 days of Happy, and how I felt that it neglected and put aside all other emotions. After the death of Robin Williams, a comedian, it seems more important than ever that we deal… Continue reading
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Land of happy souls…
What if our mental wellness is our spiritual barometer? What if it is our awareness of our spirit; our inner sense of self…the essence that has lived with us…changeless? What if what we call mental is actually a spiritual crisis?… Continue reading