Several years ago I asked my family doctor how many families are dysfunctional. His reply: “They’re all dysfunctional”, surprised me. It doesn’t surprise me now. In the opening pages of my book, REPAIR Your Life: A Program for Recovery from Incest & Childhood Sexual Abuse I mention three telling comments:…
I’m fortunate. I hate trying to control people. I have enough trouble controlling my own life. I sometimes say that when my kids reached their teens I let them raise themselves. After my divorce, here I was a single parent, no clue how I was going to handle this, not…
March 10, 2011, 10:43 am One of the most difficult things in my recovery was having to actually say the words: “My father raped me when I was 13 years old.” It conjured up, even in my mind, such yucky and uncomfortable visions that I wished there were a nice…
Years ago Charles Darwin mulled over a theory of evolution by natural selection – the idea that species evolve or disappear in response to natural selection, so that only the fittest survive. I read these words in a book about Archaeology, one of my many interests. But as normally happens…
If you were never abused as a child you no doubt automatically set up your own boundaries and had no problem doing so. When your mother told you to get ready for dinner and you were busy playing your favorite game the word, “No” popped out of your mouth. Your…
