Posted in Anger, Anxiety, Choices, Daughters, Divorce, Emotions, Enablers, Fear, Happiness, Hope, Incest, Justification, Life Stories, Losing Innocence, Mothers, Non-Offending Parent, Panic, Rape, Remember, Resiliency, Secrets, Sexual Abuse, Sisters, Suicide, Survivors, Victim, childhood sexual abuse, church, church of Christ, control, cutting, dads, denial, depression, family, guilt, healing, love, memories, molestation, religion, sin, taking sides, understanding, tagged Sexual Abuse, Suicide, memories, childhood sexual abuse, Rape, molestations, tattoo on September 29, 2008 | 5 Comments »
The day has come and gone that marks her attempted suicide, the hospitalization and the revelation. I thought if I made it through that one day, I would be fine. So on that day we went out to breakfast, shot a couple buckets of balls on the driving range and then played a par 3 [...]
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Posted in Anger, Anxiety, Choices, Daughters, Divorce, Emotions, Enablers, Faith, Fear, Hope, Incest, Justification, Life Stories, Mothers, Non-Offending Parent, Panic, Rape, Resiliency, Secrets, Sexual Abuse, Sisters, Suicide, Survivors, Victim, childhood sexual abuse, church, church of Christ, control, cutting, dads, denial, depression, false memory, family, guilt, healing, love, memories, molestation, religion, sin, taking sides, understanding, tagged Sexual Abuse, Mothers, Daughters, Suicide, family, denial, memory, church of Christ, dads, childhood sexual abuse, Rape, Non-Offending Parent, molestation, cutting on September 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The days are ticking like bombs, leading up to the day that marks the one year anniversary of her attempted suicide and the revelation. The bombs go off inside my head as flashes of images of finding her laying on the floor with gashes on her arms. Emotional bombs take hold and choke the life [...]
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Posted in Anxiety, Choices, Daughters, Emotions, Enablers, Fear, Happiness, Hope, Incest, Life Stories, Mothers, Non-Offending Parent, Panic, Rape, Resiliency, Secrets, Sexual Abuse, Sisters, Suicide, Survivors, Victim, childhood sexual abuse, control, dads, denial, depression, family, guilt, healing, love, molestation, understanding, tagged Sexual Abuse, Daughters, Suicide, Fear, childhood sexual abuse, Rape, Non-Offending Parent, Add new tag, molestation, Movies, The Brave One (Movie), Quotes, Afraid, Weakness, awakening fear, lost, childhood rape on September 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Six months ago I watched The Brave One with Jodie Foster. Since that day, one quote rattles in my head like a needle stuck on vinyl. The quote goes:
I always believed that fear belonged to other people. Weaker people. It never touched me. And then it did. And when it touches you, you know… that [...]
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Posted in Anger, Anxiety, Choices, Daughters, Emotions, Fear, Happiness, Hope, Incest, Justification, Life Stories, Mothers, Non-Offending Parent, Panic, Rape, Resiliency, Secrets, Sexual Abuse, Sisters, Suicide, Survivors, Victim, childhood sexual abuse, control, dads, denial, depression, family, guilt, healing, love, memories, molestation, taking sides, understanding, tagged childhood sexual abuse, dads, Daughters, hiding, Incest, love, molestation, Mothers, Non-Offending Parent, peace, retreating, Sexual Abuse, sharing, survival, writing on September 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My posts have slowed down and in fact, I have not written or even viewed this page in the last week. Why? Partly because I have returned to work (teaching), which keeps me plenty busy and partly because I was retreating or maybe hiding from it all.
It is September, the month that ended with the [...]
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