Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Category
How My Miscarriage Ignited My Faith To Have The Family I Desired
Posted on May 10, 2021 Leave a Comment
For years, off and on, I wondered if experiencing childhood sexual abuse destroyed my ability to have children. From 5-10, two male family members misused my developing body. When I became sexually active, with my first boyfriend, at age 16, my mother sent me down to a clinic in Madison, Illinois. For approximately 10 years, […]
There Is No Telling Where I Would Be If It Wasn’t For My Mother
Posted on May 9, 2021 Leave a Comment
Early on my mother realized that being in an abusive relationship with our father and her husband came to a life or death situation. She said “someone was going to die.” My mother chose life. In 1980 , several months after her father’s death and one year after her third child, she gathered the three […]
Self-Care Is Self-Love: People-Pleasing Is Neither
Posted on May 5, 2021 Leave a Comment
When we do so much for others, and less for ourselves, we have lost some self-respect, and therefore, are not practicing self-care. When people ask you to do something that sets off your ethical and moral barometer, we must listen to the alarm and act accordingly. Early on, I learned that no amount of doing […]
Timika S Chambers 