YES! It is so powerful to read this account, and I want to celebrate your bravery and acknowledge the pain you experience in your family role. With every word, I feel the clarity dawning on me too, as I am working up the courage to speak the truth with my family. It is absolute madness how we are portrayed as the ones causing harm, by simply speaking and living the truth, whilst the real harm and danger of sexual violence is ignored. No more. Thank you once again for giving voice to this.
This is a profound read and the ending is apt and accurate. Often we feel that enabling abuse, even indirectly through silence, is the compassionate act but the real compassion in action is the speaking up. Not allowing the enabling of behaviors or illusions and offering a path of healing and change to others. Like the pause in breathe after we exhale. Your family may not recognize it now or in this lifetime but you are helping heal the family and lead to a new direction by speaking up. As well as those who struggle who follow your work.
Keep telling the truth, and at risk of sounding unempathetic...fuck that cousin and her slippery grip on anything that even remotely resembles a value system. Same to the rest of your family. If they want to keep floundering in the darkness, that's on them. You are standing in the light and I am so grateful for your fearless truth-telling.
I'm so sorry. I love you, your work, and what you stand for. I tell people about you. I am changed and better and more useful after reading your essays.
Aw girl, I feel for you so much, you are being scapegoated so violently and unfairly and I hope hope hope you have good, supportive friends around you to put balm on this wound. Your truth-telling is precious and essential, your family may never see it but your online community respects and values you and the huge amount of work you put in to escape the realm of lies. Thank you infinitely, you continue to save my life and light the way through crazytown towards sanity with every post. Much love in your direction, take care.
YES! It is so powerful to read this account, and I want to celebrate your bravery and acknowledge the pain you experience in your family role. With every word, I feel the clarity dawning on me too, as I am working up the courage to speak the truth with my family. It is absolute madness how we are portrayed as the ones causing harm, by simply speaking and living the truth, whilst the real harm and danger of sexual violence is ignored. No more. Thank you once again for giving voice to this.
This is a profound read and the ending is apt and accurate. Often we feel that enabling abuse, even indirectly through silence, is the compassionate act but the real compassion in action is the speaking up. Not allowing the enabling of behaviors or illusions and offering a path of healing and change to others. Like the pause in breathe after we exhale. Your family may not recognize it now or in this lifetime but you are helping heal the family and lead to a new direction by speaking up. As well as those who struggle who follow your work.
Keep telling the truth, and at risk of sounding unempathetic...fuck that cousin and her slippery grip on anything that even remotely resembles a value system. Same to the rest of your family. If they want to keep floundering in the darkness, that's on them. You are standing in the light and I am so grateful for your fearless truth-telling.
I know exactly how it feels to do this and I see you. Thank you for standing in reality with me. I will be forever grateful for your words.
I'm so sorry. I love you, your work, and what you stand for. I tell people about you. I am changed and better and more useful after reading your essays.
Aw girl, I feel for you so much, you are being scapegoated so violently and unfairly and I hope hope hope you have good, supportive friends around you to put balm on this wound. Your truth-telling is precious and essential, your family may never see it but your online community respects and values you and the huge amount of work you put in to escape the realm of lies. Thank you infinitely, you continue to save my life and light the way through crazytown towards sanity with every post. Much love in your direction, take care.