If you’ve ever lived through a sliver in your foot, you know that you feel the syptoms, experience the uncomfort of it, but often times you cannot find the root cause until it reveals itself much later through reddness around the area, puffiness and increasing pain. Then, the sliver is revealed and can be removed.Continue reading “Debunking False Memory Syndrome”
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Mirror Mirror ~ Anxiety & Worry
Introspection — what better way to start a week. Question – Why does anxiety and worry follow the life of the abused person? Like a dripping faucet or a persistently cloudy day anxiety has riddled my life. It was one of the main reasons I got into counseling and stayed the course until it dissipated.Continue reading “Mirror Mirror ~ Anxiety & Worry”
Mirror Mirror ~ What is Protection?
Introspection — what better way to start a week. Question – When you receive no protection as a child, how do you know what it feels like? I can look up the meaning of protection and I understand what it means. But, my heart has a hard time discerning protection. When you don’t have aContinue reading “Mirror Mirror ~ What is Protection?”
Mirror Mirror ~ Sexuality & Trauma
Introspection — what better way to start a week. Question – Do you see how childhood sexual trauma effects our sexualilty in life? Sexuality is the capacity for sexual feelings. As children when sexual feelings are thrust into our life much too early, far too aggressive, and we have no choosing in the matter –Continue reading “Mirror Mirror ~ Sexuality & Trauma”
Mirror Mirror ~ Prayer of Jabez
Introspection — what better way to start a week. Question – Have you ever asked God to end your pain and suffering? 10 Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, “Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I willContinue reading “Mirror Mirror ~ Prayer of Jabez”
Mirror Mirror ~ Courage in Suffering
Introspection — what better way to start a week. Question – Have you thanked yourself for the courage it took to withstand the suffering you lived through? Many of us that came through severe and lasting childhood traumas don’t make it out alive. Suicide is real in our world – very real. The moment thatContinue reading “Mirror Mirror ~ Courage in Suffering”
Mirror Mirror ~ What am I carrying in my heart?
Introspection — what better way to start a week. Question – What am I carrying in my heart? While my parents’ choices lived out in my life and I paid a brutal cost for them, I am still concerned and care about what lives out in my own heart. That is my responsibility, not theirs.Continue reading “Mirror Mirror ~ What am I carrying in my heart?”
Unquestionable Understanding
Understanding. Understanding. Unquestionable understanding. That’s the message that God has for you! It doesn’t matter where you find yourself right now. He gets it! More importantly, He gets YOU. The pain. The confusion. The lack of ability to change. He knows. Stand still. He’s got you!
Mirror Mirror ~ Why am I so worried?
Introspection — what better way to start a week. Question – Do you find yourself worried? In my childhood worry may have been my best self-defense. I certainly would not have had hope. Hope for what? But, worry? Of course. Days or nights were not safe in my home. Why not worry? I should haveContinue reading “Mirror Mirror ~ Why am I so worried?”
Mirror Mirror ~ Do you see reflections of your abuser in yourself?
Introspection — what better way to start a week. Question – Do you see an overshadow of your abuser in yourself? I look like my mother. Sometimes, when I laugh or talk, it seems I sound like her, too. This makes me want to crawl out of my skin. I do not want to beContinue reading “Mirror Mirror ~ Do you see reflections of your abuser in yourself?”