Once hurt

“What once hurt you

can no longer touch you,

for people can never successfully attack or diminish

the parts of you that you have learned to accept and embrace.

And you will learn not to take anything personally

once you appreciate

that another person’s words or actions

are merely a reflection of themselves

and the parts of you they don’t understand or reject

are merely the parts of themselves that they have yet to meet or accept within.

And so, shine brightly, my love,

and never let the words of others dim the light within you,

knowing that you are the right kind of beautiful

for those who are destined to love you.”

Words by Tahlia Hunter

Artwork by Catrin Welz-Stein

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Author: GreatCosmicMothersUnited

I have joined with many parents affected with the surreal , yet accepted issue of child abuse via Pathogenic Parenting / Domestic abuse. As a survivor of Domestic Abuse, denial abounded that 3 sons were not affected. In my desire to be family to those who have found me lacking . As a survivor of psychiatric abuse, therapist who abused also and toxic prescribed medications took me to hell on earth with few moments of heaven. I will share my life, my experiences and my studies and research.. I will talk to small circles and I will council ; as targeted parents , grandparents , aunts , uncles etc. , are denied contact with a child for reasons that serve the abuser ...further abusing the child. I grasp the trauma and I have looked at the lost connection to a higher power.. I grasp when one is accustomed to privilege, equality can feel like discrimination.. Shame and affluence silences a lot of facts , truths that have been labeled "negative". It is about liberation of the soul from projections of a alienator , and abuser ..

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