Nov 28, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “Those of us who were sexually abused struggled for years trying to accept what happened to us. Mostly, people told us to shut up about it, or if they were a little more polite, they let us know that we should somehow just “get over it,” put…
Nov 27, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “Loneliness is well known by adult children. Whether we were actually alone or in a group of people, we were lonely. Many of us were, or still are, in relationships where we are lonely. This is our experience because we missed a key piece of socialization growing…
Nov 26, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “Arriving at the bridge between denial and acceptance was painful. What were we to do now that the brutality of the past was revealed? What were we to do with the internal mess that we had been left with from childhood? What were we to do with…
Nov 25, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader “We felt as if we couldn’t do anything right because we couldn’t. No matter what our caretakers intended, their emotional daggers flew at us fast and furiously and stung deeply. Even long after leaving home, we carried that critical voice with us; only now it was internalized.…