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How Children Become the Black Sheep of the Family
not fitting in I hear this expression all the time. I hear it used in the sentence “well he always was the black sheep of the family” and I hear it used in the first person such as “well I am the black...
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Forgiveness and Child Abuse ~ When Suggesting Forgiveness is Abusive
When I was about 17 years old and had escaped the difficulties associated with living under the same roof as my mother, I became friends with a neighbour lady whom I eventually sought mentorship from....
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The Definition of Respect ~ Do Disrespectful People deserve to be Respected?
poster by Judy Baxter ~ quote by Darlene Ouimet R.E.S.P.E.C.T. find out what it means to YOU……… A lot of my emotional healing grew out of realizing the truth about some of the concepts that I had...
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Repairing Self-Trust ~ Breaking the Pattern of Letting Myself Down
beauty on the other side.. I grew up receiving the message that I was not that important. My feelings were invalidated and my emotional needs were discounted. And ‘that’ causes some life-long belief...
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Shifting My Thinking on the Journey to Overcoming Emotional Damage
I had to learn to shift my thinking in this process of overcoming the damage caused by emotional abuse. There were a few rather large shifts that I had to make in order to make progress and there was a...
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Feelings and the Trigger Connection – No Longer a Powerless Child
Earlier this year my 16 year old daughter hit glare ice, flew off the road and crashed her car. She hit the first tree and took it out which caused her to roll and flip into the air, crashing 5 feet up...
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An Invisible Child in a Hostile World by Pam Witzemann
I am excited to have our very own Pam Witzemann guest blogging on Emerging from Broken this week! Pam was a frequent guest blogger here in 2011 and 2012 and she has always been a contributor in the...
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How The Truth Silences Inner Critics Voices and Healing Begins by Pam Witzemann
Please help me welcome back one of our most popular guest writers ~ Pam Witzemann! In this post Pam shares about how seeing the truth in a bigger picture way, helped her to recognize what her inner...
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The First Time a Boy Roughed Me Up and Why I Took the Blame
The first time a boy got a little rough with me I was 14. I had been swimming at our community pool and Mike the 17 year old life guard let me wear his diving watch in the water, which I thought was so...
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How Abusers and Perpetrators Get Away With It
What if I told you that there is a predator in the survivor community posing as an advocate for survivors of child sexual abuse. What if I told you that he has a large following, is well respected, has...
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