https://healwritenow.com/early-incest-poem-title-trigger-warning/ Writing & Inspiration to Heal Trauma Sun, 18 Jun 2017 22:34:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.5 https://healwritenow.com/early-incest-poem-title-trigger-warning/#comment-71765 Sun, 18 Jun 2017 17:41:56 +0000 http://healwritenow.com/?p=4517#comment-71765 I love this. I can hear your anger and I get it.. How we blame ourselves for being abused, for not coping better with the fall out. How I blame myself and am silenced by my own shame. The sucking swirling whirlpool. It is indeed badass radical to believe in other survivors and yourself – that’s how we overcome, silence the shame, grow courage. I’m trying. I love yoir raising of the different standards of judgement, empathy and how unthinkable it would be to apply those of CSA to victims of other brutalities, like terrorism, where the personal is automatically the politcal and public outrage and sympathy spills from all quarters. The fact that it’s generally not a random stranger in CSA is what makes people want to bury their heads in the sand and wounds our very souls. And by their nature those wounds separate us – the fear, the lack of trust, the shame of not coping better. Its lonely, and I really appreciate hearing others voices who know, that helps me feel less alone. So thanks

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