The Longing for Family, Love and Self Love
What is that longing for family and love? Is that real love? Is it a longing for something that is missing or for a belief in something that doesn’t exist? All my life, in my mind’s eye, I saw a small...
View ArticleSecurity Blanket of Coping Methods ~ My Survival Mode
Darlene at 21 Everywhere I go I have the privilege of meeting people and impacting their lives. Usually I can plant a few seeds that take root and grow the desire for wholeness and freedom from things...
View ArticleI wasn’t Really Old Enough to Know Better
My last post “The Twisted Accountability Tactic & How it Works” caused a few comments using the phrase “old enough to know better” or “I should have known better”. This is an interesting...
View ArticleAvoiding Feelings ~ The Root Cause
A couple of days ago, I was just about to declare that I was having a bad day and as I heard the thought forming in my head, I got thinking about it. I was not actually having a bad day; I was feeling...
View ArticleTurning Points and Emotional Healing by Susan Smith
Susan Smith I am pleased and excited to have guest blogger Susan Smith sharing a piece of her story with us today. Susan is my friend and fellow truth seeker, as well as the author of her own...
View ArticleRe-Parenting, Dissociation and the Desire to Escape
As many of you know, I’ve recovered from dissociative identity disorder and I find it to be a strange feeling to be aware of wanting to dissociate, when for so many years, it was habitual ~ I just did...
View ArticleMore on Mother Daughter Dysfunctional Relationship
Mommy Please…. “If your progress in recovery is thwarted each time you see your family, if you revert to being a subservient or a fearful child, then you may need to stop seeing them for a while....
View ArticleConflicting Feelings of Rejection when the Abuser Withdraws
Hope in the Darkness of Rejection All abuse, weather it is emotional and psychological abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse or spiritual abuse, is abuse and that these articles that I write on Emerging...
View ArticleCoping Methods ~ Trying to Escape Myself
Staying with Me No matter which coping method issue that I look at within myself I have determined the core of it to be related to trying to leave myself. There is a disconnection from myself that I...
View ArticleDissociative Identity Disorder and Reconnection
Beauty in the Ruins Sometimes I get a comment that is bursting with questions that I just HAVE to talk about in more depth than just a comment back. In my last post “coping methods ~ trying to escape...
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