Let someone love you

“Let someone love you the way you are – as flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you sometimes feel, and as unaccomplished as you think you are. To believe that you must hide all the parts of you that are broken, out of fear that someone else is incapable of loving what is less than perfect, is to believe that sunlight is incapable of entering a broken window and illuminating a dark room.”

– Mark Hack

[Image: The Valkyrie’s Vigil (before 1915) painting by Edward Robert Hughes (1851-1914).]

About the Painting:

Following Richard Wagner’s romantic reinterpretation of the old myths, Hughes depicted the Norse war goddess in this ethereal fairy painting.

The artist showed no tract of warriors slain in battle nor of scavenging ravens and wolves. Instead, we see the goddess barefoot, clad in a sheer off-the-shoulder gown, and softly lit from above – her martial aspects de-emphasized.

Note how she has tucked her helmet into the crook of her arm and holds her sword by the ricasso (the blunt section beyond the crossguard).

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Post from 11 October 2020

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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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