Choosing Not to Dissociate the Pain

I bought Geneen Roth’s book Women Food and God, and I started reading it this week. It is a fascinating book addressing many of the same observations that I have made about the connections between the body, emotions, and spirituality. For those of you who are triggered by religion, please note that she uses the [...]

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Abusers Do Not Have the Power to Destroy Our Lives

On my blog entry entitled Child Abuse Survivor Beats Up His Abuser, a reader posted the following comment: “Our abusers definitely destroyed our innocence, but only we have the power to let them destroy our lives”. I think that may be true in some cases, but not in all. Not everyone is born with the [...]

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Child Abuse Survivor Beats Up His Abuser

Have you seen the article about the child abuse survivor who beat up his abuser? According to this article, 43-year-old William Lynch confronted his abuser, 65-year-old priest Jerold Lindner, in the lobby of a retirement home. According to the article, Lynch asked his abuser if he knew who he was. When the abuser said no, [...]

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