The importance of forming effective boundaries in helping us protect ourselves against hurt and abuse
Tag: child abuse
When the Past is Present
“Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.” ~Cherokee Indian Proverb As children we absorb experiences and information around us without necessarily having the ability or maturity to defend ourselves and our best interests against it, or to make complete rational sense of it at the time. This is particularly true of behaviours and…
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Still Like A House Fractured? No, curiously I feel fractured but I see myself in the mirror and I’m whole, standing still like a house. The mirror may be fractured, but my eyes still swivel like windows in this head, guided by a nose that acts as a weather vane. I open and close my…
Spirituality I: An Existential Perspective
“The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, […] experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.” Nietzsche A feature of the work that I do with people who request it, is helping them…
Suffer the Little Children: neglect, abuse and its legacy for survivors
Child abuse inflicts horrific suffering and psychological injury upon the innocent; suffering that travels with us into adulthood
