What if you did know this was the last time you would get to talk to someone? What would you want them to know? What would you want to say to them?
Leave them with an impression that lasts a lifetime, just in case it needs to.
Recently, I linked to an article whose headline referenced a rape epidemic: Link – There’s a Rape Epidemic in America That No One Is Talking About https://t.co/KWJSR0PaQ7 — Child Abuse Survivor (@SurvivorNetwork) June 14, 2016 The article in question referred to male victims of rape, boys raped as children, and males raped as adults…
We like to think that only someone unstable would commit these type of crimes. So was the entire city of Rome mentally ill, or was something else going on? It’s my belief that something else was going on, and that was the ability to see those that are different than us as somehow less than human.
There has been a lot of noise made about statutes of limitations in the US lately. If you’re not familiar with the term, they refer to the amount of time that can pass before either a criminal charge, or a civil claim can be made in court. Because child abuse, by it’s nature, is something…
Healing is a long journey. It’s easy to see what you think is the result of healing, whatever that looks like for you, and measure yourself by the fact that you aren’t there yet. I’d disagree with that. Not that you shouldn’t have an eye on the prize, so to speak, but you need to see the details, and you need to enjoy the details.
Recently, an old friend started going through some old photo albums and scanning the photos to share them on Facebook. She and I were in the same church group back in those days, and many of the photos, despite being cringeworthy reminders of what we did in our younger days, have also brought back a…
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