A letter from the clan leaders

As most of you are coming to realize those of us with in the Anderson clan’s have a different way of looking at things and finding ways out. They may not be the most popular way of looking at thing but they do work for us even when we are surrounded by chaos. When new alters or alters are facing their fears we try not to interfere. The Inner helpers try to help them to learn ways to cope with the issues so that we can move forward. Now we are still at a grid lock because we still want to move from this town but there are those that need to stay here for what ever their reasons. When we do not fight each other or the flow of life we do find peace with in. The hard part regardless of what you choice to call your inner parts we all are human and can only take so much misery and pain. That is when the negative issues in our lives come to the front line. Those here have helped all of my inner parts to heal and to grow just by given us the freedom to express our fear and not to be re traumatize by those that wish us to keep the silence.
It is a shame that even those with in the Therapeutic community still wish to wear blinders on how the severity of early childhood abuse does effect the mental health of an individual. To say that all those that hear voice should fall under just one category is just plan stupid and ignorant. In the news letter that we received from here there was an article of an 8 year old girl diagnose with a type of Schizophrenia. But the main point was not to make the voices go away but to help a person to learn to cope with living with hearing the voices. That was what I learned when being trained by a medicine woman as a child in the 70’s. In today’s culture It is so fashionable to take a pill to fix something that most have forgotten that it only by embracing who you are really that you can heal and become the person that you were meant to be. I am not saying that taken medications is wrong what I am saying is that you also need to do the ground work to find out why you need the medications. Some do have a biological reason to take medications to balance oneself but what of those that are dealing with trauma and emotional reasons. These are the ones with the right help can take care of themselves without the medication. Very much like a diabetic controlling their insulin levels by diet alone. The Doctors cheer these people on for taken the effort to take care of themselves without medications now why can’t the mental health community do the same thing.
I will always wonder why those that call themselves the experts of certain issues so quickly forget the fact that when you clam to know everything you become the fool. For it is when you clam this fact that you will never allow yourself to know the full truth. I am here not because of the present health community but because of those in my childhood that gave me/us the skill to heal our selves. Our Nana always said it is my job to give you the skills to survive the things you face in life, but it is up to you to use those skills. It may have taken time for those part of me with the skills to become aware of what was happening to us after an event put back up the inner walls for our safety. In truth all of us are thankful to those of us that carried the burden to hold and take the abuse so that the others could heal and find a safe place for the rest of us to heal. We may not have what we started this journey with but we can clam to own ourselves not a group of people that got their kicks off from controlling us and hurting us. The simple fact that we found this web site was enough to let us know that the Great Spirit or mother/father/Gad was with us on this journey. Oh ya! The web site is here, this is Cesar putting into words and action all that we try to teach each other within.
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/dog-whisperer/4508/Overview#tab-Videos/07368_00

Hello dear anderson,
Thank you as always for sharing so personally and openly.
I will remember what your Nanna said to you, and hopefully do the same for my children...give them the skills to survive what life throws at them, and in the mean time be their protector and guidance till old enough to use, and have the choice of whether or not to use, those skills.
kp