I did my counselling training over two years ago now but getting lost in the re-creation of my past traumas and having to deal with my own shit kinda put me back to square one in the learning arena. I saw the fences, I tried my best to jump them but darn it, if I [...]
Eternal Mothering
This picture just captures the essence of my inner and outer worlds at the moment. I love it!
Picture from Herbisorbis.typepad.com
Dealing with Misinterpretations – Tool 1
One of my biggest challenges in dealing with the fallout of an abusive childhood is the tendency to filter events and actions through the shit-filled goggles of my past and misinterpret them big time! I’m so gooood at this. A simple frown off a person can suddenly become “Oh she thinks what I [...]
Inner Child Healing – Part 2
She is so loved.
Inner Child Healing – Part 1
“There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, she had so many children she didn’t know what to do”
Sometimes I feel like the old woman, her shoe is my body and there are so many children in there, that sometimes, I have to admit, I really don’t know what to do with [...]
Finally, Anger!
I had quite a terrififying childhood where I suffered daily emotional/verbal abuse, emotional neglect and some physical abuse. I remember being scared everyday. I had the classic wicked stepmother and was bullied at school and by so-called friends. My reaction to the overwhelming fear was to split into pieces, live in silence and get on [...]
Phenomenal Women
I was driving to a workshop on “releasing rage” the other morning and I was musing on how far I have come on my own healing journey when a little voice to the right and front of me head said, “You’re a phenomenal woman”. Immediately I had a kick in my gut that fiercely refuted that [...]
Baby’s Breath
I been fiddling with this here blog thingy for hours now. How time can get away from you. Behind me is the delicate whisperings of the softest rise and fall of baby’s breath. The gentlest of snufflilicious snuffles moves me into musings. I catch wisps of images floating around my vision of a warm body snuggled [...]
Hello world!
Well I didn’t title this post, it was an automated title courtesy of wordpress but I guess it’s pretty much a good title for me. Having pretty much been incubating in the the womb of my inner cave for many moons “Hello World!” is right close to how I feel lately. Hello World! did you miss me…well I [...]
