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Along with the trust issues, one of the hardest parts to deal with is the feeling of not being believed or supported, especially by your own grandparents and extended family. When I have been through so much pain and hurt and have to live with the scars every day, I get angry knowing that others think it is all made up or they brush it off because my cousin was a teenager. I was ten when I was first sexually abused by my cousin, and a majority of my relatives have taken the perpetrator's side. I
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― Living for Today: From Incest and Molestation to Fearlessness and Forgiveness
― Living for Today: From Incest and Molestation to Fearlessness and Forgiveness
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Living in the wake of slavery is haunting, and to experience this haunting is to be nothing less than traumatized. Still, it is possible to heal from trauma, or come to terms with it.
At first, we try to block out the horrors of the past - to ignore them, to pretend they are not there.
The next step is to acknowledge the past and its harm, even as it triggers us. We try to avoid looking at it too closely. But the ghosts are everywhere; they have been waiting for us all along.
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There have been times reading a book.series where I've come across context clues that hints hat …more
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