set yourself free
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I’ve spent too much of my life feeling responsible for the crimes that were done to me. Someone did go to prison for those crimes but it wasn’t the prepetrators, it was me. I was a prisoner by no crime of my own and I lived that way for far too many years. I thought…
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I’ve spent too much of my life feeling responsible for the crimes that were done against me. The last time I saw my mother, I felt that old burden of responsibility creeping in, the desire to not to blame her and leave the shame she ladled into my life with her. I felt a need…
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The kindest gift I’ve ever given myself was the ability to feel my pain. I wouldn’t have survived my childhood or the agony that my children lived through if I hadn’t allowed myself to grieve the tremendous losses we had incurred. Losses so monumental that only God could restore what was taken. When I hid…
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I’ve spent too much of my life feeling responsible for the crimes that were done against me. The last time I saw my mother, I felt that old burden of responsibility creeping in, the desire to not to blame her and leave the shame she ladled into my life with her. I felt a need…