My Healing Process from Child Abuse: Setting Boundaries

This post is part of a series in which I am providing an overview of my healing process from child abuse. The story begins here. My therapist gave me “homework” every week. That homework was to practice setting boundaries. He told me that setting boundaries was the key to feeling safe, and he was right. [...]

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My Healing Process from Child Abuse: Piecing Memories Back Together

This post is part of a series in which I am providing an overview of my healing process from child abuse. The story begins here. Most of my most traumatizing memories did not come back all at one time. Instead, I would remember part of a particularly traumatizing incident. After I healed my emotional wounds [...]

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My Healing Process from Child Abuse: Memory Clusters

This post is part of a series in which I am providing an overview of my healing process from child abuse. The story begins here. When I first started having flashbacks, I would have them one at a time. Believe me, one memory at a time was more than I could handle most of the [...]

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My Healing Process from Child Abuse: Healing in Layers

This post is part of a series in which I am providing an overview of my healing process from child abuse. The story begins here. When I entered into therapy, I thought that the mother-daughter sexual abuse was the only form of abuse that I had suffered. It was very difficult to come to terms [...]

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My Healing Process from Child Abuse: First Six Months of Therapy

This post is part of a series in which I am providing an overview of my healing process from child abuse. The story begins here. My first six months of therapy were intense, to say the least. To this day, my therapist (T) will marvel about how I covered a few years worth of therapy [...]

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My Healing Process from Child Abuse: Entering Therapy

This post is part of a series in which I am providing an overview of my healing process from child abuse. The story begins here. When I decided to enter into therapy, I did not have a clue about how to find a therapist. I was also trying to think of a way to enter [...]

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My Healing Process from Child Abuse: Choosing to Enter Therapy

This post is part of a series in which I am providing an overview of my healing process from child abuse. The story begins here. After I had my first flashback, I decided not to seek out therapy for three reasons: I was in the process of adopting a second child and feared that being [...]

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My Healing Process from Child Abuse: Becoming Aware of Abuse

This post is part of a series in which I am providing an overview of my healing process from child abuse. The story begins here. In November 2003, I reached a place of questioning whether I had, in fact, been abused as a child. I had no memory of any abuse. However, my life fit [...]

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My Healing Process from Child Abuse: Recognizing Dissociation

This post is part of a series in which I am providing an overview of my healing process from child abuse. The story begins here. From July 2003 (when my mother-abuser had surgery) until November 2003, I spent much of my time trying to figure out what in the world was going on with me. [...]

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My Healing Process from Child Abuse: Kicking Off the Healing Process

This post is part of a series in which I am providing an overview of my healing process from child abuse. The story begins here. In the summer of 2003, my mother-abuser had major surgery. She could not be left alone after coming home from the hospital, so my sister and I agreed to split [...]

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