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Hatred

“Hatred corrodes the container it’s carried in.” This ancient Chinese proverb was often quoted by our late president George H. W. Bush. I find it one of the wisest most succinct comments I’ve ever heard. Medical science is discovering more and more that destructive emotion turned inward causes disease. It…

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Suffer the Children

Do you want a child of tears? Or a child of joy? Five children die every day from child abuse and neglect. Around 80% of child maltreatment fatalities involve at least one parent as perpetrator. More than 70% of the children who died as a result of child abuse or…

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Triggers

One thing I learned in recovery is that sometimes being upset at a current negative event isn’t really about that event so much as it is about something that happened years earlier that was similar. For example, if you were previously married in a domestic violence situation with a partner…

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Flashbacks and Nightmares

Most childhood sexual survivors are plagued with periodic flashbacks. Some remember what happened and some don’t and are puzzled and at times, depending on the severity, traumatized all over again. These flashbacks can be excruciatingly painful. Some don’t know what they refer to. Some know but want nothing more than…

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