Parential Alienation-Child Abuse – Page 1495

Age

“The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.

I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I was once a searching adolescent, given to moods and ecstasies, these are still part of me, and always will be . . . This does not mean that I ought to be trapped or enclosed in any of these ages . . . the delayed adolescent, the childish adult, but that they are in me to be drawn on; to forget is a form of suicide . . .

Far too many people misunderstand what *putting away childish things* means, and think that forgetting what it is like to think and feel and touch and smell and taste and see and hear like a three-year-old or a thirteen-year-old or a twenty-three-year-old means being grownup. When I’m with these people I, like the kids, feel that if this is what it means to be a grown-up, then I don’t ever want to be one. Instead of which, if I can retain a child’s awareness and joy, and *be* fifty-one, then I will really learn what it means to be grownup.”

~ Madeleine L’Engle

Art: Diana Bryer

#SacredSistersFullMoonCircle #Spirituality #WomensWisdom #WomensEmpowerment #RedTent #Goddess #GoddessStudies #GoddessCircle #SacredFeminine #CyclicalLiving #WheeloftheYear #Mythology #Magick #Folklore #FolkTradition #BeautyTruthandLove #AgesofWoman

Child of the Gods

“You are a child of the gods

And the goddesses.

You have seen the dark

Shades of the gorgeous abyss

And yet here you are,

Risen and risen more

Like the

Soaring Phoenix

Like the dove circling

Like the daring swallow,

Like the grand Albatross

Making her way

Across the oceans

Until she finally

Descends onto

The warm and welcoming

And soft and sunlit

Sand.”

Camilla Slater 2022.

Image Credit: Francoise de Felipe

Truth

I used to try to be Good.

Good was my go-to in everything.

But Good got me nowhere.

Not like Truth.

Truth,

she tore me to shreds,

devoured me whole and spat me out shaking and new.

Truth keeps a box of matches in my pocket.

While Good made me afraid of transformative fire.

Truth keeps me real,

even if it makes everyone in the room uncomfortable.

And Truth,

unlike Good,

doesn’t let me bow down to anything.

Truth doesn’t let me give in to bullying, misguidance and fear-based criticism

or cowardice.

Truth is a queen and a humanitarian,

while Good,

she’s a silent,

scared little sheep.

Truth knows that Good dulls my already radiant, fierce and loving soul.

Good showed me how to hide my wings,

my words and angel vision.

Truth taught me to be brave.

Truth taught me how to respect myself.

Truth allows me to hold impenetrable space for any story,

but first and foremost,

for my own.

And Truth,

well,

she changes everything,

and friend,

she’s coming for you, too

Tanya Markul

Matriarch

Maker

She who creates

She who forms worlds

Matriarch

Leader

She who knows

She who paves the way

Matriarch

Harvester

She who reaps

She who gathers

Matriarch

Sovereign

She who is empowered

She who knows herself

Matriarch

Queen

She who reigns

She who has triumphed

Matriarch

Survivor

She who has passed through the fire

She who rises from the flames

~ Rebekah Myers, Matriarch

Art: Maartje Van Dokkum aka Mary Feywood

Mary Feywood

Feast of Trumpets

This is news to me and I’m going to look deeper at this .

I suspect Jewish lineage on paternal of sons for several reasons …. far too many secrets

**Please share if you have info on this Feast of Trumpets 👁

Blessings & Peace☮️❤️💯

Dona Luna

268church.org/feast-of-trumpets-2022/

Bloodlines

A few years ago, one of my DRT friends walked into a meeting wearing the most interesting necklace. A thin gold necklace with names linked one to the other. The names began with hers, then her mother’s, her grandmother’s, her great grandmother’s name, and on going back until her maternal line ended meeting her name once again: so special. Most genealogists have a difficult time following women as so often they are lost in the “Mrs.” In the Spanish tradition, women have their father’s name followed by a “y” meaning “and” with their Mother’s name- maternal family names don’t get lost. However you may trace your maternal line, I always think of my friend’s necklace: the names of her female ancestors encircling her neck.

Sherrie Campbell PhD :Toxic Family

Tuesday Teachings

Too often we allow our toxic family members to make us feel cruel when they are forced to face the consequences of their own transgressions. Whenever you confront them they immediately fall into the histrionics of the “hurt person” role. Why? They loathe being called out. When you call them out, they accuse you of being “cruel” to them.

It is never cruel to let any person, especially a family member, know when they are grossly mistreating you. In healthy relationships this type of respect and openness is encouraged.

Instead of openness and ownership, our toxic family members guilt us for telling the truth. Do not fall for this. Never feel guilty for respecting someone enough to tell them the truth. If they think the truth is a cruel thing to bring up, that’s their problem. Not yours. Stand your solid ground.

Cords

1st was a shade of purple-blue and his cord was wrapped around his neck 3 times . He was coated with white matter which I learned were calcium deposits due to his being 2 weeks late .

He was born at 11:11 on 3-11 and he has major psychic abilities that have much traumatic influences and deserve healing .

Targeted because of our very strong connection, I pray for his blessings and healing ❤️‍🩹

This is something that comes up with all of my clients.

It’s another fear that has been driven into us from the media and shared stories.

👉 Nuchal cords are a variation of normal and rarely cause a problem.

🤔 What if i told you that nuchal cords are as common as 1/3 of all pregnancies.

👉 It looks pretty scary to see something wrapped around a babies neck but we have to remember they don’t breathe through their lungs, they get oxygen and blood through the cord.

👉 Ok, but what about the cord being compressed and stopping that?

👊 Well, natures got you covered.

The cord is covered in a jelly substance called Wharton’s Jelly.

👉 This is there to protect the veins and arteries in the cord. To stop them from being compressed and it does a fantastic job and means that the cord can squish into all sorts of amazing things including knots without causing a problem.

👉 In fact, the cord being around the babies neck is a good thing. If it were around the babies head it would get squashed coming out from under the pubic bone as this is a tight squeeze.

So it being tucked under the chin around the neck is actually a great way of stopping this from happening.

👉 Once born you (or your midwife) can easily slip the cord over your babies head, sometimes doing a somersault flip on the way out.

✨I keep saying it, natures unbelievably clever and thinks of everything.

Posted @withregram • @purebirths Cords around the neck – Nuchal cords

📸 credit @laurenanddouglas.birth

Words • @oceanhypnobirthing

#nuchalcords #birthmyth #birthtips #birthpreparation #birthprep #homebirth #birth #midwife #midwiferycare #themoreyouknow #newborn #physiologicalbirth

Angels

“You are always an Angel.

This ethereal realm

You delegate

And relegate

To space

And unseen things

Is here

Right here,

As real as the

Small cut on your

Tiny finger,

As real as your

Parched throat

After a day in the sun,

As real as the breeze

That blows across

The dashboard

Of your car,

Fluttering wayward

Papers and receipts

Like little prayers

To heaven.

You are always an Angel.

As real as the jasmine

and wisteria

With its cluster

Of violet flowers

That sing their quiet song

In the early morning

Light.

You are an Angel.

Always.

You have always

been an Angel

With and without

The flowering wings

That flutter

Like the papers

and receipts

Across the dashboard

As you make your

Own and precious

And ordinary drive

All the way home

To your very own

And very real

And very true

soul

Within.”

Camilla Slater 2022

Image Credit: Practice by Xuanwei Su.

Experimenting with lives is risky

An Illness, or Risky Experimentation?

By Ron Unger, LCSW

When deciding how to organize treatment for “psychosis” we face a crucial question. Should we defer to mainstream views and assume that “psychotic” experiences must be part of an illness? Or should we stay open to the possibility that the confusion and distress we witness may be resulting, not from something wrong with the brain, but from people experimenting with sometimes extreme strategies to cope with difficulties in their lives? And that possibly the confusion and distress we see is created when people experiment with strategies that may backfire in ways they do not understand at the time?