"Survivor To Thriver": Healing The Impact Of Childhood Abuse
Healing the impact of childhood abuse is a difficult yet hopeful process. If you were physically or sexually abused as a child, you may often feel fragmented, confused, vulnerable, and somewhat chaotic inside. You may have difficulty with trust and intimacy in your relationships, and your emotions may seem unpredictable and volatile to you. You may also have a generalized feeling that you are somehow “bad” or unworthy, and therefore, not like yourself very much. You may also …
Blaming Our Parents Is Easy
It’s easy to blame our parents for how we are:
“How can I be successful and happy when my father always told me I wouldn’t amount to much?”
“My mother was never a role model for a happy, healthy woman.”
“No one ever showed me love when I was a child, so how can you expect me to have good relationships now?”
“I was sexually abused by my father so everything’s wrong with my life now.”
“No one ever expressed emotions in our family; they still don’t, so don’t expec…
Winner’s Gold from Personal Garbage
Have you noticed how everybody takes it for granted a bad experience is automatically all bad? That nothing good could ever come from a bad childhood? I’m hearing the comment more and more often that we have become a victim society. Maybe this is true. Well, maybe all the bare facts of your childhood are true, but isn’t it time to start looking for the positives that are buried in all that negative stuff?