truth telling

  • I Am Raising Children While Reparenting the Child I Was

    There are moments when I am standing in my kitchen, surrounded by dirty dishes and children arguing over something completely insignificant, and I realize I am doing two jobs at once. I am raising my children. And I am raising myself. The second one is quieter. Nobody sees it when I have to remind myself…

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  • Twisted with Turmoil

    If it were not my family, I would have healed faster. The complications that come from incest are far reaching and so difficult to come through. If a stranger had done to me what my family did to me, there would be no question but to get on the down road as far and as…

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  • War on Childhood Crimes

    I read an article by Erica Terry titled, Sexual Abuse and the Hidden Children of the Holocaust. From that article, she writes: In fact, the pain of sexual abuse often impacts childhood survivors far greater than other losses and traumas endured during the Holocaust. In a 2006 study, the first of its kind, Professor Rachel Lev-Wiese of…

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