abuse

  • Shine Once Again.

    “Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.” ~Maya Angelou I don’t know what to blog about the show with Oprah and 200 Adult Children of Sexual abuse, men whose boyhood was stolen and now their manhood too… Continue reading

  • Sprouting Self Hatred

    As I headed to my room to do yoga with my belly unsettled, images of the laughing sisters, my demeanor glum, I wondered how yoga would be. The standing poses went by without a hitch, but as I lay on… Continue reading

  • Turn My Light Back On.

    While listening to Tyler Perry talk to Oprah about his abuse as a child, he speaks of how when his father beat him, he would escape to a park in his mind, but on one occasion, he recalls the beating… Continue reading

  • The Wise Listened

    I only spent one hour in her presence and wanted to follow her home, and in fact we may have been behind her motor home as she left our town, I had the chance but turned off as our road… Continue reading

  • Cheering for the Butterfly!

    We would rather be ruined than changed;We would rather die in our dreadThan climb the cross of the momentAnd let our illusions die. ~W.H. Auden   As I sit in the graveyard of my illusions, I am left with merging… Continue reading

  • One Real Me

    “How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg?  Four.  Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.”    ~Abraham Lincoln   I love the simplicity of how this shows you can name anything… Continue reading

  • Annihilate My Truth

    My brother wrote about the word annihilation and I had never looked at what it meant, yet I too have used the word, but now I want to see how it is applied.   Words to me are much more… Continue reading

  • I Didn’t Forgive Her

    When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers – and men, their fathers – all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior. ~Mignon McLaughlin   The above quote caught my… Continue reading

  • United together without abuse.

    “One can be a brother only in something.  Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.”  ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry   What is the something that binds a family together, what binds sisters… Continue reading

  • Shamelessly Me

    “Yoga Makes you you” is what Bikram says near the end of the 90 minutes of yoga, and until today I had always envisioned a new me.   Today I realized that I get to be me minus the shame.… Continue reading