Child Sexual Abuse Category

How My Miscarriage Ignited My Faith To Have The Family I Desired

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, […]

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Self-Care Is Self-Love: People-Pleasing Is Neither

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 […]

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Does It Really Matter Who or What Reveals The Truth To You?

Even in my child abuse experience, there was much to learn about myself and life, not in an attacking way, but how to live more consciously. I do not wish for anyone to experience abuse. When there is nothing to revert the situation, what do you do? You learn. You heal and move forward. Timika

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