by Elisabeth | Sep 13, 2017 | Parenting, Trauma In Society
My recovery work has taught me that the original traumatic experiences are about 5% of the total problem. Almost all children experience traumatic events, but if they have supportive parents, they can come to understand what they experienced and recover from it in...
by Elisabeth | Aug 9, 2017 | Freedom Fighters, Memory Repression, Parenting
I have spent several months walking through my past with my inner rebel runner. It hasn’t been easy. We have felt so much futility, grief, shame and fear. And countless memories have been shared. All of these memories are different in their own way, but they have...
by Elisabeth | Jul 26, 2017 | Defenders, Freedom Fighters, Parenting, Recovery
I’ve hit a creative wall. This is not unusual. I have times when my controller pushes through something with the mind because the mean kid or inner rebel has shut down my ability to do anything useful. It hits me when I decide to create a new program or create...
by Elisabeth | Jul 12, 2017 | Parenting
Over the past few years, I have come to understand I have lived an expendable life. Before you lecture me, I want to be clear that I don’t believe my life has been for nothing. I mean I have lived a life that was expendable to others. The people in my childhood saw...
by Elisabeth | Jun 7, 2017 | Defenders, Parenting, Recovery
I have to admit something I am not proud of. I find myself having an inner temper tantrum this morning. It has to do with current events which I try hard to avoid on my blog, not because I don’t have opinions, but because I don’t want to trigger people more than...
by Elisabeth | May 17, 2017 | Freedom Fighters, Memory Repression, Parenting
The past few years have been very different from the life I used to live. This may come as no surprise based on the amount of inner work I have done. It has a tendency to change the external in subtle (yet substantial) ways until one day we wake up from an afternoon...
