Tag: untreated

• Holistically I see me.

  I had images of myself yesterday, the woman I had become from being left untreated in abuse. How backwards I viewed life, myself and how I treated others was indicative coming from whence I came.

  Today while trying to write out the differences between living from love and living from fear, I stumbled upon a sentence that said, “Untreated abuse is abuse that isn’t seen”.

  Imagine all it takes to treat abuse is to see it.

  Just see it.

  I was able to crawl to the surface by one child echoing what I had felt about my father, she saw what I saw; we both saw or felt abuse.

  I am not sure how her treatment went from that point on, for when they treated her monster as a father, she was left confused. I lived in that confusion for 46 years.

  I find great peace in knowing that treatment for a child is seeing the abuse and acting in kind.

  All your actions from that day forth have to be indicative of dealing with a monster not a dad.

  I know, from my own Monster experience, that the key in killing what ruled me was to see it.

  To see the total make up of this monster, to see the triggers, the cause and the affect, to gain control over the monster that lived within me.

  This monster was created from Untreated abuse.

  Imagine.

  The word Holistic came to mind…and I looked up the meaning.

  1. analyzing whole system of beliefs: characterized by the view that a whole system of beliefs must be analyzed rather than simply its individual components
  2. considering all factors when treating illness: taking into account all of somebody’s physical, mental, and social conditions in the treatment of illness.

  When folks talk about holistic treatments for illness, they usually speak of natural substances to treat the affects, but rarely look at what the cause was.

  Holistic to me is to look at the whole person, to see the whole view of where they traveled and whom they traveled with, what they were taught and how that fits into reality.

  I am thinking that just like religion is learning about God and Spirituality is experiencing God, there is an equal space between trying to apply natural remedies upon an unnatural life.

  An unnatural life for me would be to live like I was never abused. A more natural life would be to live as an abused girl. And the holistic approach is to see all the aspects of abuse and to feel that there was no part of my life that it didn’t touch, it isn’t just a mole in my life, but my life.

  I love that I know two things now, that seeing abuse is treatment and to see all points of my life, is living holistically.

  I grew naturally into an unnatural person in the land of abuse.
  I was born right side up and was flipped and then tried to act normal from an unnormal place.

  Holistically I see me.

  

  This tree and me are one…I have such great love and compassion for how it grew and stands tall with its roots showing!

  March 17, 2011

  abuse, childhood, holistic treatment for abuse, legacy, or, seen, treated, unseen, untreated

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• 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 with screams and no landing, I awoke to wondering who has my back now.

  I understood that most of my over dramatic ways is due to the fact that I have been unhealed, and that I have been healing as I walk with my daughter in what I call abuse, and how as I watch others respond, I am again plunged back 45 years and get to see and feel the dynamics of my own childhood.

  The present day actions are bringing forth my unexpressed feelings and giving me the chance to voice them now, letting my little girl say what she needed to say, feel what she needed to feel.

  Yet, my thought as I went to sleep last night, was who has my back now?

  Who is supporting me, who is standing with me and walking my walk?

  Am I living with people who are for me or against me?

  Frightened I felt alone again, almost childlike yet with adult options.

  I can flee; I can go where no one can hurt me.

  Confused about leaving or staying, I fell asleep.

  This morning I began writing and became more confused, so I went to my room with the heater running for yoga, and was hit directly that here, this is the warm caring I need, and then quickly felt that, I am the one I am waiting for.

  I am the one who cares for me, who will bring me to places that I need to be, allow me to speak when I need to speak…

  I am my own mother, I love and care for me.

  I have my back.

  While inside I felt the desperate need of wanting to be cared for, it would actually be relying on others for my needs, wanting them to take care of me, to be a child again.

  Wanting to feel like a child being taken care of is going backwards, reverting to childhood…

  It is my job to heal me, to feel and separate the emotions from childhood and those from today, to not mix my anger towards my mother with my husband, to keep the plays in their own era.

  The degree of separation is huge.

  Knowing that I can set the stage, make my life comfortable, that I am strong enough to watch my own back, and have the courage to speak my words, always, is huge. That I can withstand deep sadness, grief and sorrow, that I can still find my inner balance and core, that I can muddle through until clarity can be found, that I am healing and dealing and being who I am coming from whence I came.

  A woman whose childhood left scars she now has to deal with along with the raising her children, even when they dovetail, and I am asked to flow between child and mother, the wounded and the healer, the caretaker and the needy, I make it, I deal, I survive the ride down the rapids of emotions and character changes.

  What a dance, to be playing all parts, and feeling their psychological damage and or healing, repairing as I go…while growing new emotional strength leaves me exhausted and exhilarated.

  My inner body feels like it has been churned up and shot through with huge holes, bruised and achy in the feelings that run through me.

  I feel inside like I ran back-to-back marathons and carried my daughters and generations with me, that I was solving the puzzles and correcting movements, re-writing my life’s script.

  And in doing so, will change the trajectory of my life.

  March 12, 2011

  abuse, anger, behaviors, changes, child, childhood traumas, choices, emotions, life, parenting, parents, past, present, repairing, separating, sexual abuse, spouses, Unexpressed, unhealed, untreated

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