Emotional abuse is often undetected, leaving in its wake deep scars. In the raising of children it’s quite a set up. Your parents are supposed to use their wisdom to guide you, to teach you right from wrong. But in many homes there is little wisdom and the guidance is…
When I was in recovery, I discovered that our emotional maturity stops growing at the age when our abuse began. I first viewed this with disbelief. After giving it much thought I realized that, although I hated to admit it, my emotional maturity level had been stuck at the age…
Hundreds of girls practicing for the Olympics over the last 20 years were sexually abused by their assumed-to-be trusted coach. In the early 2000s, this story broke: priests in the Catholic Church were sexually abusing children. The Boy Scouts of America, in the face of a new wave of abuse…
1. What happens if I have no memory of the abuse but fit most of the characteristics of child sexual abuse? It is common for those sexually abused as children to have no or limited memory of their abuse. It doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. Sometimes memory loss is…
I still love my father. I even miss him sometimes. I also hate him at times even though I forgave him. If he had been alive at the time I was going through recovery could I have had him arrested and watched him being charged for rape and then imprisoned?…
