There Is A Comfort In Knowing That

So Often Survivors Have Had Their Experiences Denied, Trivialized, Or Distorted. Writing Is An Important Avenue For Healing Because It Gives You The Opportunity To Define Your Own Reality. You Can Say: This Did Happen To Me. It Was That Bad. It Was The Fault & Responsibility Of The Adult. I Was—and Am—innocent.” The Courage To Heal By Ellen Bass & Laura Davis

No Matter How Many Vitamins You Take, How Much Pilates, You'll Lose Your Keys, Your Hair And Your Memory.

I Live In Santa Cruz. I Moved Here In 1974 And Couldn't Leave.

There Is A Comfort In Knowing That You Don’t Have To Pretend Anymore, That You Are Going To Do Everything Within Your Power To Heal.

There's A Part Of Every Living Thing That Wants To Become Itself: The Tadpole Into The Frog, The Chrysalis Into The Butterfly, A Damaged Human Being Into A Whole One.that Is Spirituality.