We have all known someone who feels disrespected by others but blows through the clear and well-defined boundaries of others as if they are the Kool-Aid man pushing through the brick wall…

We understand what we know. We can normalize even the worst behaviors because as children our abusers are often trusted individuals, parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents, babysitters, teachers, preachers. police officers, etc. We are taught to love them, and often there are moments of goodness and kindness that we’ve felt before the abuse starts. It creates conflict in the child so that the child begins to blame themselves for the abuse that occurs.

Game shows have lifelines; we need them too!

Kintsugi, the Japanese Art of fixing broken things with gold. The picture is from my first go at it. It was done at a retreat I attended for female survivors of childhood sexual abuse. It was at this retreat that I first heard of this art. Fixing something broken and creating something beautiful and functional again. What an interesting concept.

Sometimes you have to take the leap – jumping blindly without assurance that everything will be okay!