Healing From Child Abuse and the Harry Potter Series

I spent seven hours yesterday reading the second half of the final book in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I only started the series about a year ago, so I had friends eager for me to finish the last book so we could talk about so many things. I really [...]

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Grieving Effect of My Healing on Dysfunctional Relationships

Over the holiday season, I have spent a lot of time with dysfunctional family. Let’s just say that I am really missing my (functional) friends right now. It is really hard to spend a lot of time with dysfunctional people. These are people who I love, but I can no longer connect in the way [...]

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Where is God During Child Abuse?

+++++ religious triggers +++++ One question that many abuse survivors wrestle with is where God was when the abuse was happening. Considering that God might have been the only entity aware that the abuse was happening, and assuming that He had the power to stop the abuse, then why didn’t He? A reader left a [...]

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Healing from Child Abuse: Function After Dysfunction

One challenge for me as I have healed from my history of child abuse has been the changes in my dysfunctional relationships. I find myself gravitating toward more functional people, and those are the people I choose to spend most of my time with. However, especially around the holidays, I reconnect with the people who [...]

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Christmas After Child Abuse: O Holy Night

+++++ religious triggers +++++ I don’t remember my first 24 Christmases. One reason is because I sat around the Christmas tree w/my abuser each year. Another reason is because I was viciously abused on Christmas Eve when I was 7. I have always been somewhere between indifferent to Christmas to downright hostile towards it. However, [...]

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Ritual Abuse Survivors: Be Gentle With Yourselves

WordPress has a neat feature of letting me know what words people type into search engines to find my blog. One person found it by typing in “December 21″ “ritual abuse.” I know exactly what that person was looking for, and I wish I had thought to post about it on Friday. Ritual abusers have [...]

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Associating Emotions with Traumatic Memories

The book Safe Passage to Healing by Chrystine Oksana was very helpful to me in explaining the importance of associating memories back with the memories of traumatic experiences. Throughout my healing process, I worked on associating the memories, feelings, etc. If I was sad, I cried; if I was angry, I threw things, etc. But I had [...]

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Seeking Your Input on More Resources

Ehow has hired me to write 20 more articles for them. I have already written quite a few pertaining to healing from child abuse. What other topics would you like to see covered? Here are the articles and links to topics that I have written for eHow that cover healing from child abuse: How to [...]

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Reiki as a Healing Tool After Child Abuse

Reiki is a wonderful way to help a person heal from child abuse. The best way to describe Reiki is as a spiritual massage. The Reiki master places her hands either on or near your body, and positive energy flows into your aura. I know that might sound a bit weird and “out there” to [...]

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Beauty Beneath the Ashes

This is something I wrote almost exactly three years ago. ***** religious triggers ***** I have discovered that the secret to healing is learning to love yourself, but that is easier said than done. Some people say that loving God will heal you, but I found that loving God, in and of itself, wasn’t enough [...]

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