Tag: Abuse
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Misericordias Domini (2nd Sunday After Easter) ~ 14th April 2024
The following sermon was not an easy one for me to write, and I’m still not sure how much I like it or how happy I am with it. But I got a fair bit of positive feedback from women from both congregations where I preached this past Sunday. One thing in particular stuck with…
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Shame
Between reading BrenĂ© Brown’s book Daring Greatly. How the Courage to be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent and Lead and something my therapist pointed out on Friday, have been thinking a lot about shame. Or maybe I should say I have been thinking about it more than usual. After all, shame is…
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Paper Cuts
A lot of people call me “too sensitive”,”too emotional”,”too fragile”,”too much”.They say I over reactto the smallest bit of criticism.All my life I believed them.And I still do.Even though I don’t want to.Their voices became my voice,my negative self-talk.And yes, I do take things to heart.I don’t have a thick skin.When you criticises me it…
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Sometimes I just don’t understand people
TW: childhood (sexual) abuse, paedophilia I don’t know if there are currently more cases in the news over here or if I am just a little more aware of them than at other times. Either way, there have been at least three different reports about adult men sexually abusing children on the news. In one…
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Seeking an Assessment for ASD – First Steps & the Revelations This Brought
At the beginning of this year my therapist asked me if I have ever been assessed for autism. The answer to that was no. In fact, I never even thought that I might be autistic. Sure, my (in many ways abusive) ex brought it up once, but in such a way that I dismissed it…
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Some More Personal Thoughts Regarding Mother’s Day
As I mentioned in my earlier post, Mother’s Day is a difficult day for me. A lot of that has to do with the difficult relationship I have to my mother. So seeing adds and posts and all that about great mother-daughter-relationships and wonderful mothers is pretty painful. It is painful because my mother is…
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Eggshells, Bubble Wrap and Ableism
As I mentioned in my very first blog post, since I realised that I am almost certainly autistic a lot of things in my life have started to make more sense to me. In fact, I had more than one “lightbulb moment”, so to speak. Both good ones and not so great ones. And some…
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Work, Family and Self-Care
As I write this we are two days away from the beginning of Holy Week. Next Friday is Good Friday (I still don’t get why it’s called that in English). And then on Sunday: Easter. I love this time of year. Both from a faith perspective and because it’s spring and I just love how…