Recovering from Childhood Abuse

October 2, 2007 by faithallen

Water Lily (c) Lynda Bernhardt Hi! My name is Faith Allen. I am so excited to be launching my own personal blog. I have been working as a professional blogger over at AdoptionBlogs.com since January, but this will be my first private blog. While I am passionate about many topics, the one most near and dear to my heart is recovering from childhood abuse. My childhood was filled with trauma and terror, but today I am living a life of freedom from my past. While I will always have residue from my history, I have learned that my past does not have to define who I am.

This blog is not about what broke me. Instead, I want to focus on what “fixed” me because that is what survivors of childhood abuse care about – How can I heal? Is healing even possible? I am living proof that you can heal from childhood abuse, no matter how bad the abuse was.

I am writing this blog for you – for those of you who are trying to heal from a history of trauma. So, please leave me comments and let me know what you would like to read about. Here are some ideas from the top of my head, but I am happy to talk about any area of healing from childhood abuse, including –

For years, I have been active on a message board for adult survivors of childhood abuse. I have offered (and received!!) lots of support from others who are working through their own healing journeys. I also provide support for adoptive parents who are parenting children who have been traumatized.

I am a professional writer by trade, but this blog is a labor of love. I just want to offer others hope that they, too, can heal from their pasts. Our abusers took our past, but only we can give them our present and future. The choice is yours, and you do not have to walk this journey alone. I am here if you need a friend.

To view my other blogs, check out the following links:

Photo credit: Lynda Bernhardt

Posted in Healing | Tagged abuse, childhood abuse, healing from childhood abuse, recovery from abuse | 11 Comments

11 Responses

on October 3, 2007 at 12:26 am | Reply Sandra Hanks Benoiton

I look forward to following this blog, and I’m sure you’ll be a great help to others.
on October 3, 2007 at 8:15 am | Reply faithallen

Thanks, Sandra!!

– Faith
on October 6, 2007 at 2:16 am | Reply ruth aka kanga

dear faith, you were the first person whom ever replied to me when i first came to that site for survivors you mentioned. i remember how you warmly and gently introduced me to this extended group of people who spread across the world and i have also been privileged to watch you grow and occassionally offer you the odd piece of advise and support too!!!. I wish you every success and happiness on not only this blog but in your life in general…its been a pleasure to have crossed paths with you. Wishing you every happiness, love, ruth
on October 6, 2007 at 7:29 am | Reply faithallen

Thank you so much, Ruth!! That means a lot. :0)

– Faith
on October 24, 2007 at 9:56 pm | Reply Tiffany

Faith you have done so much for abused children! When I saw you and your daughter Masha on Oprah last year I knew you were someone special. Thank you.
on October 25, 2007 at 3:11 pm | Reply faithallen

Tiffany,

Thank you for your comment. However, I am not the same Faith Allen. I guess there are two of us who are active in abuse survivor support circles. :0)

– Faith
on February 24, 2009 at 9:23 pm | Reply B

Hi,
I’ve just found this blog and am definately looking forwards to reading new posts but also those already made. The problem I’m having though is to read archived posts isn’t particuarly easy because the timeline thing on the right doesn’t say the earliest posts for each month. Similarly when you click to get onto the next month it takes you to the last entry that month and thus you get in reverse order down the page and across multiple pages. From discovering your blog this evening (which by the way looks like it will be immensely helpful to me) it’s taken me half an hour to find this first post.

Just wondering if it could be made any easier really I guess. Especially if one wishes to link trusted friends/ etc. to here, because as always, other people tend to be better at explaining difficult things than the self!
on February 24, 2009 at 9:51 pm | Reply faithallen

Hi, B.

Welcome to my blog! :0)

The best way I know to navigate chronologically is by using the calendar. However, you might want to consider reading by topic rather than chronologically. To do that, click on the pull-down menu under “Categories.”

Take care,

– Faith
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