childhood
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Shield of Pretending.
If you look at the way positive or negative feedbacks travel, they are exactly the same, leaving a person and landing within you, the only difference is the content or is the only difference from where it comes? Or is… Continue reading
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My Second Childhood.
I am reading the chapter titled “Basic Tools” in The Artist Way book by Julia Cameron and love her take on both. “Logic brain is and was our survival brain. It works on known principles. Anything unknown is perceived as… Continue reading
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In the Land of Falsehood.
In David Hawkin’s book “Truth vs Falsehood” he writes, “The Reality of Freedom and Happiness.”“Just as all that is destructive has a common source, so do freedom, success, health and peace have a common source, which is that of spiritual… Continue reading
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In Peace I walked Free!
After my last post about the Civil War in abusive homes, I had to look up the meaning of Civil to see what it means to be in a Civil war. Civil -polite: polite, but in a way that is… Continue reading
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Protected me.
For six years I have been saying that I have no memory, and I have lied. I have no mind memory, but my body has always had its memory. I don’t have actual vivid stories to recount, but I do… Continue reading
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Children will suffer.
From Alice Miller’s book “The Body Never Lies,” she writes… “My attempts to persuade the Vatican of the importance of early childhood experiences have revealed how impossible it is to arouse feelings of compassion in men and women who right… Continue reading
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I Run, Because you can’t.
“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way and not starting.” Buddha I felt the loneliness today of my Aunt who ran away. A woman I never met, yet I… Continue reading
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Kept this Pattern Going.
Being a mother in the middle and having a generation before me and a generation below me puts me in a great place to witness the intricacies of how relationships are formed and how the legacy is passed on. Being… Continue reading
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Alice Miller, again. I love her fearlessness.
Chapter 4 in Banished Knowledge by Alice Miller titled “Why I Reject Psychoanalysis Also as a Therapy Method.” “Following my interview for the April 1987 issue of the German Journal Psychologie heute (Psychology Today), in which I declared my break… Continue reading
