From a comment below:
“The journey of a 1,000 miles goes step by step and starts with the first step, everything else remains locked in your imagination.”
Recovering from abuse is just like that, you take each step one at a time and you don’t really know where the journey will lead you, but it is your journey and your decisions that guide you. The important thing is not where your particular journey takes you, but that you are willing to start it.
Driving home Friday night, I was scanning through the radio dials, as I’m wont to do during a 3600 miles drive over 8 days, and found a talk show where the host was talking about girls who had been raped and whether or not they were to be considered “damaged goods” by prospective boyfriends or…
Bad dream I had a dream last night that I found out my nephew was being molested and I had to tell his parents. What a horrible dream. I was so relieved when I woke up and realized it was just a dream, but at the same time, I feel oddly “spooked” this morning. Ugh!
I know, I know, changing the weblog here again! I wasn’t very happy with Radio, and although some of the features I want for this were to be included in the next version, it wasn’t going to be free anymore! So I went back to the drawing board, and came up with a blog using…
I know the feeling Kevin talked about on his blog last night all too well. For all the guilt and depression I suffered through all the years of abuse, none of that feels as bad as disappointing a wife so worthy of my love and care. Hang in there Kevin, the best thing about our…
At least it’s new to me. I was reading this article about a little boy who will be walking in DC for child abuse victims and noticed a mention of darknesstolight.org. Looks like a very wealth of information on childhood sexual abuse.
When Marj mentioned on Twitter today that this month marks the four year anniversary of the Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse, it got me thinking about the importance of anniversaries. As a survivor, or anyone who is concerned about healing or improving in any way, anniversaries, birthdays, holidays, etc. are a good opportunity to take…
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