If you plan to shop with Amazon.com…

Please consider clicking on the Buy From Amazon.com link to the right. If you do a lot of holiday shopping online like I do, this is a great way to help out a worthy charity at the same time. A percentage of your purchases will be donated to Isurvive (a message board for child abuse [...]

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Struggling: Two Weeks Until I See Mother/Abuser

My sister graduates from college on December 12. She was a ninth grade dropout, and she applied to college in her mid-thirties as a newly divorced single mother. She will be graduating with honors with a double-major. I am sooo proud of her, and I am thrilled to be there to watch her receive her [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving, Everyone!

I hope all of you have a Happy Thanksgiving! For those who are in pain, do the best you can to nurture yourself and remember that this time will pass. You are going to be okay. I am going to be busy cooking Thanksgiving dinner for the first time without my mother-in-law’s help. (She passed [...]

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Triggered by Loss of Doctor

Yesterday was not a good day. I had to return a bunch of phone calls (which I hate doing), one of which was rescheduling my son’s appointment with his attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) specialist. She worked at a psychiatrist’s office and has a degree in pharmacy, so she was very knowledgeable in medications to help [...]

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Johnny the Bag Boy

At church yesterday, the pastor showed the following video (no religious triggers). I thought it was such a great message that I want to share it with all of you. Bottom line — No matter who you are or what your station is in life, you can make a difference. I have tried several times [...]

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Your Comments are Always Welcome

Everyone, A reader emailed me asking me not end my comments with “Take care” or “Hang in there” because some of you are perceiving this as me meaning that I am finished with the discussion. I actually sometimes say those things as an added form of support. However, since some readers have misconstrued my intention, [...]

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How do you Know a if Memory is Real?

On my blog entry entitled Stuffing the Memories Back Inside after Child Abuse, a reader posted the following question: Faith, on the subject of repressing memories, how do you know that something is actually a memory, and not some weird dramatization your mind is making up? This is possibly triggering, and I even feel a [...]

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Feeling Like Nothing is Ever Going to Change

Do you ever feel like nothing is ever going to change in your life, so what’s the point in even trying? Sometimes I get that way, especially after I have been sick for a while. I feel this physically, such as watching the child spill applesauce and the dogs track in mud on the floor [...]

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“Stronghold of Deception” after Child Abuse

As I have shared before, I am working through a Beth Moore study on the patriarchs of Genesis. The stuff I read yesterday has got me thinking (which really is the point of a Bible study, right?). Beth talks about the “stronghold of deception” and how it is passed down from parent to child. She [...]

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Post-illness Depression

Does anyone else go into a depression after recovering from an illness? This is standard protocol for me, and I hate it. I can kind of understand how it happens, though. As I shared yesterday, being sick as a kid meant that I was on my own. There was no nurturing to make me feel [...]

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