The only person that deserves a special place in your life is someone that never made you feel like you were an option in theirs. Most emotional and verbal abuses are from our original families. They say it’s for our own good. It’s a perverted reasoning in my opinion. Sadly, name calling and labeling is […]
Category: Women’s Corner
Self-loathing, self-destruction and addictions
Self-loathing is a feeling that resembles self-hate, as it constantly pushes the idea that you’re not good enough. As a consequence, you might feel like you don’t deserve love or that things happen to you for a reason. You begin to binge on your drug of choice. My drug of choice is carb. The truth […]
Lack of validation
Growing up, I often felt my opinions and feelings were overlooked. Bomluk e ke ngalk el redil. Ouch. Truth over Comfort Looking balck, I see clearly why I was rejected. I was not a nice girl who didnt foll protocol. The messagd was “Be like Martha … get busy in the kitchen. Serve. Don’t talk.” […]
The Enabler
An enabler is one that enables another to achieve an end, especially : one who enables another to persist in self-destructive behavior (as substance abuse) by providing excuses or by helping that individual avoid the consequences of such behavior. Someone I know came the other night and asked to borrow some money. She wasn’t normal. […]
Noise– Brain Ambush
A friend wrote to me saying: The other day I found myself standing in the kitchen, staring at the sink, fully overwhelmed — not by dishes (though yes, those too) — but by this random, creeping panic that I was somehow behind in life. Why? No actual reason. Just… a brain ambush. You know the […]
My Redeemer and Friend
The first time I heard Mozart Concerto 20 in d, k 466 -2, my heart swelled too big for my chest. I was 21 years old. Today I’m 73 and still my heart swells and spills out in tears. I can’t explain why. There’s something about music especially classical music that moves you to feel […]
