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Nothing Happens Overnight
Posted on May 11, 2021 Leave a Comment
After I graduated from undergraduate and landed an RN position at my place of employment, I moved out of my mother’s and house and found an apartment right off highway 70. During this period of stillness, I started researching child sexual abuse and incest. I learned about child sexual abuse prevalence, risk factors, and short […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
