I discovered firm decisions are hard to come by when most of my life I would go with the flow. I found situations less combative to oppose rules and regulations, whether directly or not applied to my actions. Communication restrictions were the worst. Who I talked to, when and why got to an extreme. IContinue reading “Never Back Down”
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Perfection No Longer
Perfection is not all it is cracked up to be. Along with stress, anxiety and possible high blood pressure comes negative perception of self because nobody is perfect. A child abuse victim often feels if I am picture perfect then maybe none of this harm would happen to me. Behaviors of exactness build to hideContinue reading “Perfection No Longer”
Beware The Rut
Recovery from trauma does not happen overnight. You may find that healing occurs like peeling away layers of an onion to work on one at a time. The iterative process is painstaking but well worth the effort. The tendency to pause too long in a particular spot along the way can occur. I found theContinue reading “Beware The Rut”
To Live
To run, one must learn to walk. To have direction, one must learn to walk slowly. To love, one must learn to walk slowly, carefully. To live, walking slowly, carefully is not enough. One must be aware and beware of the obstacles that will tear the heart and soul from pleasure, the things that we allContinue reading “To Live”
Happy to Find William’s Fawns Breath
Sometimes the most precious moments of one’s life happen in a split second. If one happens not to notice that second in their life… April 3, 2010 Apparently, I “just existed” all these years after starting over. What does that mean? I have been living life, right? Dang, all this time. I am beginning toContinue reading “Happy to Find William’s Fawns Breath”
HE IS FOREVER WITH ME 