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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

  • A New Legacy to Begin.

    “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” Soren Kierkegaard I did yoga today, only the second time this week, and I felt the… Continue reading

  • 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

  • Our Abusive Parents Loved Us.

    Tinogona, It is Achievable! Tererai Trent Sometimes it is hard to grasp the how or to figure out the way, but all that is needed is the faith in that it can happen. Surrendering the details up to the Universe… Continue reading

  • Theories as a Protective Shield

    “Theories as a Protective Shield” chapter 4, in Banished Knowledge by Alice Miller, she writes… “The feminist movement will forfeit none of its strength if it finally admits that mothers also abuse their children. Only the truth, even the most… Continue reading

  • Unable to Heal.

    Here is another part of Alice Miller’s book “Banished Knowledge”…again from the chapter, Wicked Child. “Reactions to new insights reflect not only training but also the tragedy of unequaled chances: A loved child receives the gift of love and with… Continue reading

  • I see me

    “Tolerance is another word for indifference.” William Somerset Maugham I am not sure you can have tolerance unless you are indifferent. Indifferent – without care or interest: showing no care or concern for or interest in somebody or something. I… Continue reading

  • Normally intolerant of Abuse

    Addiction is an uncontrollable compulsion to repeat a behavior regardless of its negative consequences. The condition of being abnormally dependent on something…being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on. My brother brought to my attention that addiction is to be abnormally… Continue reading

  • Trajectory of my life.

    Going to sleep last night with tears drying on my cheeks, after feeling the feelings of being a child with no one at your back, to feel the absence of protection of safety, and feeling the feeling of free falling… Continue reading

  • Orphaned with parents.

    The view I have on my childhood home, is that my father sits and does nothing and my mother runs around busy busy. And yet how much further from the truth that actually was. My father sat, after he abused.… Continue reading