After my therapy session yesterday, I took my son to see ‘Moana’ at the cinema. It was visually beautiful and emotionally moving in a very empowering way. It’s based on a Polynesian folktale about a baby girl who is chosen to save her island from darkness and blight. She is the daughter of the chief…
We have Idiot guides and manuals to almost everything nowadays; for example, An Idiot’s Guide to Plumbing, An Idiot’s Guide to Microsoft Office and an Idiot’s Guide to Parenting. I have been thinking that we should have an Idiot’s Guide to the Profound and Irreversible Effects of Childhood Sexual Abuse. Of course it’s not the…
I like that my new counsellor checks in regularly to ask me what I am feeling. That constant bodily awareness, as I recount events from the past helps me immensely. It helps me to reconnect with the body I left behind all those years ago. It is part of diving down and reclaiming me; the…
I am my son’s most fierce advocate! Fierce and furious because I was never protected by my own mother. It’s so hard to admit even now…but she never protected me and is guilty of gross negligence towards me. It hurts so deeply to know that I wasn’t important enough to her to speak up on…
It’s ok to be still. Stillness and aloneness are comforting places. A place to rest and listen. To listen to all the voices within. The voices that are usually silenced by the distraction of outside noise. Delve deep into the silence, that place that is the centre of you and know that you are ok.…
This morning I found myself waking up to a very scared little girl inside myself. I struggled to wake up; frozen with fear and worry. I reassured her that she was ok, she is safe and that I will take care of her. That I hear her and see her. That I know it’s been…
It’s not easy to start a new life in a new place, make new friends, find a new job. So much ‘newness’ in such a short time. All the comfort and the familiarity of the old path has disappeared. It’s so easy to feel like you want to run back to the comfort of the…
After posting yesterday about my ex-husband’s continued antics and tantrums, I received your messages of support and have been reminded of who I am. The woman who stood up to an abusive man and divorced him, the woman who confronted her abusive parents and cut them out of her life for their refusal to acknowledge…
A crucial part of self-love is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Of course words like fail and mistakes and wrong are always relative and subjective. But I am talking about giving yourself the freedom to make the wrong choices and trusting yourself enough to adjust and compensate and grow from the experience. As a survivor…
I know it in my bones, I know that I am doing the right thing. I know that I am on the right path. The path back to myself and I know that everything in the past has led me here, right here, to where I am this very moment. I know that I am…
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