abuse

  • Abuse is Winning Life’s Game

    The shocking factor about Penn State is that there was not a warning label on their football team that suggested what lie beneath.  Perhaps it is the false sense of advertising that we feel the most duped by. They were… Continue reading

  • Less than a point.

    I heard today that they fired the coach from Penn State, the coach who knew for 9 years that he had a pedophile working under him…today the truth finally caught up to him. What will he now be remembered for?… Continue reading

  • Holding it all Inside.

    I didn't catch the speakers name, but heard her on Sirius radio say, "trauma is experienced in the right brain and stays there until you express it.  The left brain categorizes our experiences and it needs to be expressed or… Continue reading

  • Whatever Reality Serves.

    My brother's blog (www.messyguru.typepad.com ) shows the switching characters that a mother often displays when faced with truths that directly oppose her life.  Her life and dream and ideals. I have somehow had this wrong.  I had presumed that my… Continue reading

  • Coming From Whence We Came…

    Our book club is reading the book, "leaving the Saints" by Martha Beck…this section was particularly affirming to me when I first read her book about five years ago. She recounts how her life began to make sense after getting… Continue reading

  • Freedom isn’t gained by doing Nothing.

    We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It isvisible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable. ~AlexanderSolzhenitsyn While I have known that it takes folks with great courageto speak out, I didn’t realize ALL… Continue reading

  • Unconditionally loving the Abuser.

    As human beings we are used to riding along and adjusting to change, but we are not used to being “the change you want to see in your world” as Gandhi put it. We want change and we want it… Continue reading

  • The opposite of what it looks like.

    What I am continually shocked with is what lies beneath the ‘good’ Christian folks from the FALC.  How on the surface there remains a veneer of smooth carefully constructed Norman Rockwell painting and underneath lies the drawings of an insane… Continue reading

  • A Pattern without Abuse.

    “Two wrongs don’t make it right…” came to mind yesterday and I can see clearly how a child gets so lost after being abused, how the negative energies keep piling up.  ‘Good’ folks who are unaware of what their actions… Continue reading

  • I took my life back, by walking away.

    On my last blog, I received a comment and a line struck me that I want to share.  “It was an error to not stand in front of your house and scream or picket or whatever else until your dad… Continue reading