Let go of victim shame. We have issues and tasks, but our issue is not to feel guilty and wrong because we have been victimized. ~ Melody Beattie, The Language of Letting Go: Hazelden Meditation Series (p. 354). Who hurt […]
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The Problem
“The problem is, I don’t know what the problem is.” We understand the conundrum when we get out of our area of expertise, when we summon support for a software program, for trying a kind of home repair for the […]
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One person comes. One person comes. One person comes. One person comes. One person comes powerless, with an unmanageable life. One person comes, sick to death with this illness we’ve fought for years, filled with shame, with rage, with despair. […]
Continue reading »Our Non-Existent Willpower
Our so-called will power becomes practically nonexistent. We are unable, at certain times, to bring into our consciousness with sufficient force the memory of the suffering and humiliation of even a week or a month ago. We are without defense […]
Continue reading »Words Out of Reach
She sat on the grass beside the road, somebody’s yard, but they seemed to be away, three or four newspapers scattered. I didn’t know her but she needed someone. I sat beside her. She seemed to need mothering. She nestled […]
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