return to joy
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A continuum with healing for me was finding moments of fun — full of pleasure. That isn’t an easy task for me. Much like sex had to feel dirty to be pleasurable, fun had to feel “bad” to be good. Oxymorons abound in the complicated life of a survivor. Sometimes when I chat with Jesus,…
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Don’t forget to have fun along the way! My childhood, bleak as it was, had moments of clarity through fun. My brother and I played in the woods for hours. When the rain came, we’d run outside with our bare feet to dance and be silly. I can still feel the wet clay dirt between…