Don’t shame yourself

Don’t ever

shame yourself

for showing up,

admitting or sharing,

only to be shutdown

or even ghosted.

To want to reach out

and describe your struggle

and be understood

is better than holding

it all painfully inside

and to never be seen.

It’s all humanly real.

The risk to be

honest and open.

The exposure from

connecting outside

vulnerability.

The enormous courage

it takes to let your

truth be revealed.

And know in turn,

not everyone can respond

in the way you expect

and believe —

or perhaps at all,

sometimes.

But, don’t ever

shame yourself.

Don’t diminish

your light

for expressing

or become conditioned

to not ask for help

in your time

of great need.

~ ‘Don’t Shame Yourself’ by Susan Frybort from the book ‘Look to the Clearing’ Poems to Encourage, Susan Frybort

~ Art by Jeanie Tomanek

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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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