Tag: human rights

You Touch I’ll Tell

Possible TW:

Watching the news this morning they announced a new book.

It’s a kid’s book called:

“If you touch, I’ll tell”.

Upon raising awareness about abuse and speaking on her book, the Doctor/Author also said something that really stood out to me.

First she stated “there are 3 words parents can say to help their children speaking up, and that’s: ‘I Believe You’.”

The next sentence was what I heard the loudest…

“There is love in belief.”

“You love your children, so believe them.”

Just a simple, yet powerful sentence I wanted to share. “There is love in belief.”

I do plan to get this book when I’m able to.

Not every parent likes this book.

I’ve seen comments such as, “It’s not appropriate to put these serious subjects into little minds.”

These “subjects” (sexual abuse) they’re real life. Ignoring the bad that does exist, doesn’t make anyone immune to it.

Kids need and deserve to learn how to speak up, and more importantly, know that they CAN speak up!

“If you touch, I’ll tell”

By: Dr. Shamina Aubuchon

Life Lessons

10 THINGS TIME HAS TAUGHT ME

1. Most of our life is spent chasing false goals and worshipping false ideals. The day you realise that is the day you really start to live.

2. You really, truly cannot please all of the people all of the time. Please yourself first and your loved ones second, everyone else is busy pleasing themselves anyway, trust me.

3. Fighting the ageing process is like trying to catch the wind. Go with it, enjoy it. Your body is changing, but it always has been. Don’t waste time trying to reverse that, instead change your mindset to see the beauty in the new.

4. Nobody is perfect and nobody is truly happy with their lot. When that sinks in you are free of comparison and free of judgement. It’s truly liberating.

5. No one really sees what you do right, everyone sees what you do wrong. When that becomes clear to you, you will start doing things for the right reason and you will start having so much more fun.

6. You will regret the years you spent berating your looks, the sooner you can make peace with the vessel your soul lives in, the better. Your body is amazing and important but it does not define you.

7. Your health is obviously important but stress, fear and worry are far more damaging than any delicious food or drink you may deny yourself. Happiness and peace are the best medicine.

8. Who will remember you and for what, become important factors as you age. Your love and your wisdom will live on far longer than any material thing you can pass down. Tell your stories, they can travel farther than you can imagine.

9. We are not here for long but if you are living against the wind it can feel like a life-sentence. Life should not feel like a chore, it should feel like an adventure.

10. Always, always, drink the good champagne and use the things you keep for ‘best’. Tomorrow is guaranteed to no one. Today is a gift that’s why we call it the present. Eat, Drink (or don’t) & Be Merry.

Donna Ashworth

From ‘To The Women: words to live by’

https://amzn.eu/d/boCNeID

#growingolder #women #inspiration

#ageing #wise #wisdom #menopause

8th Monkey

Put 8 monkeys in a room. In the middle of the room is a ladder, leading to a bunch of bananas hanging from a hook on the ceiling. Each time a monkey tries to climb the ladder, all the monkeys are sprayed with ice water, which makes them miserable.

Soon enough, whenever a monkey attempts to climb the ladder, all of the other monkeys, not wanting to be sprayed on, set upon him and beat him up. Soon, none of the eight monkeys ever attempts to climb the ladder.

One of the original monkeys is then removed, and a new monkey is put in the room. Seeing the bananas and the ladder, he wonders why none of the other monkeys are doing the obvious. But undaunted, he immediately begins to climb the ladder.

All the other monkeys fall upon him and beat him silly and he has no idea why. However, he no longer attempts to climb the ladder.

A second original monkey is removed and replaced. The newcomer again attempts to climb the ladder, but all the other monkeys hammer the crap out of him. This includes the previous new monkey,

who, grateful that he’s not on the receiving end this time, participates in the beating because all the other monkeys are doing it. However, he has no idea why he’s attacking the new monkey. One by one, all the original monkeys are replaced.

Eight new monkeys are now in the room. None of them have ever been sprayed by ice water. None of them attempt to climb the ladder. All of them will enthusiastically beat up any new monkey who tries, without having any idea why.

That is how traditions, religion and ethnic profiling get established and followed.

Think twice before following a tradition, religion or negative ethnic profiling. It would make more sense if you get your own understanding to it!

-Author Unknown

Childhood Lessons

“My parents beat me when I was a kid and I’m not traumatized,” says a male alcoholic whose partner reported him for physical abuse.

“As a child I was punished a lot and I’m fine,” says the man who complains every time he makes a mistake.

“When I disobeyed as a child, my father locked me in a room and for that I am grateful to him today,” says the woman who suffers panic attacks and fear of tight spaces.

“My parents forced me to attend an apprenticeship in this profession, where I make a lot of money, and for that I’m very grateful,” says the man who can’t wait for Friday because he hates his job.

“When I was little, my parents made me sit at the table until I ate everything,” says a woman who doesn’t understand why she struggles with eating disorders.

It’s time to break through the generational trauma and become aware of our past patterns. It is time to be compassionate to ourselves and our children.

A child learns to solve problems through conversation, if we solve conflicts in the family this way. If problems with threats and penalties are solved, one day it will act the same way.

A child learns compassion when we are compassionate towards them.

A child learns to listen to others when we listen to the child, when we are interested in how they feel and what their world looks like.

A child learns to believe in himself if we believe in him.

We don’t have to raise our children, we have to lovingly cultivate them. ❤

Understanding Power

Totally

An 18 year old in college, pledged to a fraternity and is subject to all manner of “test” just like an 18 in boot camp , humiliated and saturated in following orders as well as networking .

These folks who do not ask , do not tell become leaders , CEOs and representatives of our law . Who owe each other

A nation of men and not of law much and will change .

Implosion happening now .

Blessings & Peace ☮️

Dona Luna

Most of the people who make it through the education system and get into the elite universities are able to do it because they’ve been willing to obey a lot of stupid orders for years and years – that’s the way I did it, for example… Some people go along with it because they figure, “Okay, I’ll do any stupid thing that asshole says because I want to get ahead”; others do it because they’ve just internalized the values – but after a while, those two things tend to get sort of blurred. But you do it, or else you’re out: you ask too many questions and you’re going to get in trouble. ~Noam Chomsky

(Book: Understanding Power https://amzn.to/3dwz4rb)

Line Em Up – James Taylor

Of course I’m a huge fan , my Dad and 2nd son are named James , which translates to supple-mentor.

A deceased soul mate was also named James and died of extreme complications from years of IV drug use .

The detached upbringing and loss of both parents ; created this grieving soul who captured my heart in a bond that I could not escape . Addiction to this addict did not resonate and I married for several weeks to break the tie that bound me . I had experimented to better understand and it did not please me and it was easy to abstain except for “pot”.

In marriage it was the same , an occasional Valium , or smoke.

Sleep was threatened from the get go , with intense snoring and I don’t do well with lack of sleep . My nature then was high strung and active but I became weak and moody but did not understand why .

The reasons have lined themselves up , as it were . Our family was destroyed for reasons of addiction , control and ego .

The eyes have become more beady . And darker . As have some of our leaders , exposing a consciousness lack that is staggering .

After hearing Romney state that morality had nothing to do with politics , yesterday I heard the GOP rep talk about morality in the GOP.

That’s a good thing because I know Republicans that are moral and the greedy eyes are lining up . I don’t need to name names but look at the eyes ! Note who peers over their glasses in a passive aggressive profession / authority , manner ?

We each are part of a whole and as the harvest comes in we do harvest the truths that are clearing the way to new earth and less greedy little eyes !

youtube.com/watch

New Term : Ethical Distraction

This is extremely enlightening !

We have work before us , and it’s wayyyyy past time !

Blessings & Peace

Dona Luna

citizensforparentalrights.com/federal-money-and-cps/