Healing

GENTLE SOBRIETY

The Bridge between Addiction and Permanent Sobriety

Healing

Healing from family violence and/or child sexual abuse takes time. The first thing that must take place is naming the trauma that has kept you a "chi-ult."

Name it. Give the pain you are holding inside a voice. Say it out loud. "Incest" or "Sexual Abuse" or "Battered Child". Most times there are multiple pains, by multiple abusers.

Admitting your family wasn't perfect is OK. It is the first step in healing.

Face it. Tell your story to someone. If you have no one to talk to, write it down on paper. Take your time and make it as detailed as you remember. List all the abusers, the time and places where the abuse took place.

Let all those suppressed emotions come out. Rant, rave, cry buckets of tears. Get angry, Hit a pillow with a stick. Rage. Let go of all the emotions you have suppressed. It did ruin the first part of your life but the last part, from now on, will be much better. This process takes time. Lots of time. Be patient.

Heal it. Empowerment presents in many forms. Become a speaker for children's rights, change laws, develop policy. Write a book to help other children. The more you give outside yourself, the more you heal.

You are forever altered from who you were born to be. Consider this experience only a detour.

Remember, it may have been a necessary journey to reach your true reason for being on this earth. Listen to your inner self.

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