littlelaurie

What a great thread! I'm really glad I ventured into this area and read this post--very empowering! Thank you for sharing Laurie

What a great thread! I think inner child work is really important to recovery (at least it has been on my path!), and what a great way to share. My inner child often gets scared but loves to be cuddled and do art. Recently my inner child was very mad and had a lot about rage about being abused and not protected. But she's feeling better today. We've been knitting

I've only been around for a few days, but I've found this to be a very supportive environment. Welcome! Laurie

Thank you for the warm welcomes! Jen--I sympathize with the weight gain. I have also struggled with my weight--I think extra weight makes me feel safer and more secure that abuse would not happen again. But I too am ready to lose the weight--you inspire me to work even harder! I have lost about 11 pounds so far, and I hope we can help motivate each other! Laurie

I'm new here also but I thought I'd say hi also! Laurie

Thank you all for the welcome! I'm looking forward to getting to know you better, and I hope we can gain strength from each other! Laurie

Hi, I just found this place a couple days ago, while I was going through the first rough patch I've had in a while. I guess I would say that I am "mostly healed" from my experiences, but although I've dealt with so much of what happened, as life goes on, I am presented with new aspects of what happened to deal with. What I do believe is that you are only faced with what you can deal with at the time, even though at the time you can feel completely overwhelmed and in darkness. When I was just an infant up to two years of age, I was sexually abused by my father. I told my mom as a small chi