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Post by Katie on Mar 7, 2009 7:11:28 GMT
What does healing mean to you?
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Post by wontbetakenalive on Mar 21, 2009 14:47:31 GMT
Ohh thats tricky,
I think to me healing means I can live a "normal" life (to what society would class as the norm) without any of the effects from the abuse, rape and bullying. I am far along in my healing journey at the moment but still suffer from the effects, low confidence and low self esteem are two of the main problems i have (unless im hypomanic but then its over confident and to the extreme).
Something that came up in conversation with my dad a while back was that for me to be able to move on completely from it all was to learn to forgive those who hurt me, and also to try and get closure on the abuse. Well Ive got closure I think, I reported my abusers to the police in dec 07, but sadly in June the CPS decided there wasnt enough evidence and the case was closed, chucked out whatever they call it.
However forgiving those who hurt me is a harder task, something i dont know I'll ever be able to do.
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Post by becky68 on Jun 3, 2009 13:11:22 GMT
healing for me getting the memories back but actually being able to feel and let go forget, be secure, normal, fit in and have relationships,communicated and not feel like the odd ball like never fit in dont know if it is possible.. rid shame and inadequacey just be normal
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Post by Katie on Jun 3, 2009 15:34:03 GMT
It is possible to move away from the alienated feeling, or rather, live around and beyond it - the feeling still might come in, but it has less power to suck all your power away. I'm at that stage of my healing right now. And it is amazing! I never thought I'd get to this place.
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