From Self Blame to Self Love and Finding My Value
I tried to LOVE by the definition of love in the last post “Love is Patient, Love is Kind ~ a bit of a rant” but I was not valued for that because I (whatever I did) was never good enough. How could I...
View ArticleMemoirs of a Mad Survivor by Patty Hite
Patty Hite I am pleased to have guest blogger Patty Hite from the website Overcoming Sexual Abuse writing for Emerging from Broken today. We are continuing with a series of posts on the subject of...
View ArticleHow One Trauma Led to Several False Beliefs
in the mind of a child I remember when I was talking about my first memory of being sexually abused. As I was speaking out loud about the details, being prompted for other tiny details and trying to...
View ArticleHow Blame, Guilt and Shame get Misapplied to Self
The belief system that I am constantly speaking of does not form all at once or form completely from one event. This is where it gets complicated. Other events factor into it, some of them normal...
View ArticleEvil Manipulative People and Emotional Damage
I had to learn to stop trying to understand evil manipulative people in favour of understanding what happened to me. It seemed easier to concentrate on the WHY questions about them, but I had to...
View ArticleAfter a lifetime of Invalidation Self Love Began with Self Validating
I had been brainwashed that my childhood was wonderful, normal and that I was one of the “privileged” people in the world. I believed that something was wrong with me because I had so many struggles...
View Article“YOU’RE NOTHING BUT TROUBLE” by Fi Macleod
I went into the room where my grandparents and mother were. There were two paedophile friends in the room with them. There were 5 grownups in that room – my grandparents, mother and two paedophile...
View ArticleUnderstanding Depression Led to Facing Sexual Abuse by Tracie Nall
I am excited to have my friend and fellow writer Tracy Nall contributing to Emerging from Broken with her guest post on how her search for answers about depression led her to realizing that child...
View ArticleMy Abusive Childhood Wasn’t that Bad because His was Worse
Sometimes people tell me that they don’t think they have a right to call what happened to them “abuse” or that they feel as though they don’t have a “right” to feel as though they had been wronged in...
View ArticleVictim Blaming ~ When you are Blamed for the Core of Your Pain
“You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people, but until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. You can bandage the bleeding with food, with alcohol, with...
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