dysfunction

  • I was Missing?

    One theme of fear that has nagged at me in the past six years is; I don’t belong. I don’t match, I don’t fit in, I am different, I am at odds with those around me. I stand out; I… Continue reading

  • I feel Solo

    As I look at my self in my life today, I am so much freer than I would have ever dreamed possible. While I live in the same house, married to the same man, and still have four children with… Continue reading

  • Thank you.

    As I sit here on Thanksgiving morning, I look back at this year and find so many moments of gratitude, it seems I had a year full. My moments of gratitude are interrupted with moments of sheer pain, frustration, sorrow,… Continue reading

  • Inconvenient Truth

    Just finished reading “Sickened” by Julie Gregory, her story of living with a mother who needed her sick, Munchausen By Proxy.   It is amazing that her mother could convince her she was sick, and to ‘act’ sick, and how… Continue reading

  • The Silent Aunt who disappeared….

    “He couldn’t not know what he knew; he couldn’t not see once he saw.”   Patti Digh   It hit me today in yoga, that what I am witnessing in my great niece is Me.   Me as a newborn baby… Continue reading

  • Freedom in Healing.

    Yesterday I felt the sorrow of not going back, of being forever outside, being stuck in a new life upon which there is no return.   That my inner truths and feelings will not change, and I don’t have the… Continue reading

  • My Walled Garden.

        More from Iron John, by Robert Bly.   “If a man or woman has been sexually abused in childhood, or has lived in any form of a ‘dysfunctional family,’ he or she will need sooner or later a… Continue reading

  • Equal In My Eyes.

              What is the difference between hollering and verbal abuse?   What is verbal abuse?    Well I looked up the definition of Verbal Abuse.   Psychology A form of emotional abuse consisting of the use… Continue reading

  • ….walked as you.

    My sister sent a request on facebook a few days ago, a ‘friend request’ and I accepted it with some trepidation.   I am not sure why she is stepping into my world after 4 years and I asked her… Continue reading

  • Fashioner

    In a split second, you can go from being a little girl to being a mom. It happens so fast, I am not sure we even have the time to think about it. It happens to some and I believe… Continue reading