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  • Our Own Mother Lode.

    In Alice Miller’s book, Banished Knowledge, the chapter, called ‘the wicked child’ is the following. “In Thou Shalt Not be Aware, I have demonstrated how precisely Freud’s “drive” theory and Melanie Klein’s theory of the cruel infant coincide with the… Continue reading

  • Save yourself.

    While thinking back upon my journey out of sexual abuse/incest, I wondered what was the one thing that made a difference, what one major item was my cure? Cancer has drug treatments and therapies and it seems the body has… Continue reading

  • A Lady with Borders

    I listened to Dr. Laura Berman speak about “Borderline Personality Disorder”. It sounded so similar to where I came from, where the lines between what is your life and what is my life are blended, and how you can flip… Continue reading

  • A Liar too.

    There seems to come a time in each relationship where the titles and names do not matter, where instead lies the meat of the relationship, the giving and the taking, the feelings we feel in the wake of their actions,… 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

  • 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

  • Almost Ruined Christmas

    This Christmas finds me in a different spot, a place of being too tired to care about Christmas, where joy and love and peace would be found not having Christmas. It isn’t so much Christmas itself, but that I am… Continue reading

  • “With Love always mom”

    As I began my workday yesterday morning, I am in high spirits using all my efforts to stay positive with the large volume of mail, willing myself not to get weighed down by the load. I am happy to start… Continue reading

  • Cold without a Heart

    “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” ~Confucius Going forward with your whole heart is heart breaking, for you are wrenching your heart out from all the people you gave it to. What I failed to understand that it… Continue reading