When Rabbit Howls

by Truddi Chase

Sexual abuse destroys a very basic trust. It violates the child at an essential level, creating a natural defense against the perceived dangers of trusting.

Rabbit was a very young and unevolved child who held the pain for almost the entire Troop Formation.

“No one knows, exactly,” he said, “or at what stage of life it begins to be formed. Some insist that personality is fixed in the womb by one’s genes;

Pressured beyond the ability to cope, she stayed away from television news as well, for fear that it might loosen her fine-edged grip on sanity.