| I am still wrapping my head around even being in the class. Growing up, I knew something was “out of sync’ but I didn’t realize I was being abused or that I should have experienced the nurturing other girls got from their mothers, ‘they were being pampered and spoiled.’ I now see her contempt and vacancy no longer as a response to something I’ve done or said or who I am —It is who she is. I see her today as a pitiful elderly person and these actions as evil to do to a child. This class has brought me to a new place. Though I am still caught between the notions ‘this was normal for me, look at who I am today, and others have experienced so much worse’ versus ‘wow! this was truly evil, how did I survive such manipulation, why did no one see this and save me?’ I have a way to go…This is only the start of my healing… |
Motherless Daughters Ministry