abuse

  • You can feel its worth.

    While tossing around in my head conversations about the differences between going into the Light and heading into the Darkness boggle my mind. How it is that a person loses direction, how do their maps get turned upside down, how… Continue reading

  • Until she can find her own.

    The hardest part of being a mom is when your child takes an exit that you didn’t see coming and they seem to disappear from the usual landscape and it leaves you separated. And I am not even sure what… Continue reading

  • Meant to be.

    Motherhood begins in childhood, and womanhood starts there as well. The essence of who we are as a woman will directly relate to what kind of mother we are. There is no separation between woman and mother; the two are… Continue reading

  • You Break the Chain

    Grand Traverse Women Magazine was asking about articles on Motherhood, and immediately I felt that I had a unique perspective in how my mothering changed as I unraveled my life of abuse. It is like my children had two different… Continue reading

  • Our Door in the Future…

    I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate. ~ Arthur Wing Pinero I read this quote a few times and now I believe I understand it, that our karma or our lessons continue until we… Continue reading

  • Show and Tell

    The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. ~Socrates I looked up the meaning of the word Integrity and one of its meanings is to be in a state of… Continue reading

  • My grasp on Reality.

    “People Show you who they are, Believe them,” is a quote by Maya Angelou. I thought this was what my daughter needed to hear, when in fact I was talking to myself. I awoke to an eerie phone glow coming… Continue reading

  • Imperfectly Me.

    Yesterday morning, after a sleepless night I wrote the post about unconditional love, about knowing to the depth of my soul, no matter what I will not be the one to abuse my wounded child. I let go of all… Continue reading

  • Without Conditions.

    My daughter asked me to clarify, that the abuse I speak of is not sexual, it is not rape, it is not fondling, it is I guess a light form of abuse, it is cheating. There has been no physical… Continue reading

  • Emotional Cheating.

    Emotional cheating definition: It is an emotional relationship between a married or a committed person with another in the opposite sex not the spouse. It does not involve sex but includes emotional feelings and attraction and it is also referred… Continue reading