just back from t ..... she says i am starting to make connections about my past and making good progress .....

it CAN be done love and care, Jinny xoxoxoxoxo

edited for my terrible spelling lol

[gimmeice]

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That's awesome! I love hearing about progress in therapy. It helps me have hope

wow that's GREAT earthmama ..... so glad to give you hope, i really feel for the first time in my life i can get over thisand live my life ..... good luck to you sweetie, hugs to you too gimmeice (((((((((((((((((hope and love)))))))))))))))

Jinny xoxoxoxoxoxo

[Mouse_]

Thats good.

[MissCharlotte]

Wow, that is wonderful -- print out your post and hang it on the fridge!

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thankyou hon

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thanks maybe i will jinny xoxoxoxoxo

[Lenny]

Wonderfull stuff jinny,,,the paradox of progress is pain on our mountain...

Connections come from opening doors that have remained closed,,sometimes for very good reasons..

The wonder of great therapy is patience by both parties...sometimes great chasms of silence are necessary to achieve a "crisp" thought,,,a welcome tear and a soft nights sleep..

Keep doing what your doing..its working...

Lenny

Thankyou so much Lenny no doubt i will have awful days ahead, but they are few and far between. Sometimes i wonder if i am really me lol .... the thing is, even if i have a really bad nightmare or flashback or a day feeling depressed, i know it wont last .... that's the difference between now and last year when i was hopeless, helpless, suicidal (2 attempts)

i WANT this to give people hope ..... because there IS A LIFE AFTER EMOTIONAL AND SEXUAL ABUSE..... I AM LIVING PROOF......

and i am a few steps closer to fulfilling my dream of becoming a counsellor myself ..... i just want people to see this and know there IS HOPE i should post my poems from last year so peeps can see how bad i was i just need people to realise that is doesn't last forever.... sorry if i'm sounding like a preacher, just passionate about wanting folk to know you can get over trauma ..... Jinny xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

[kessa19]

I just read this poem in a book I'm reading and I think it's beautiful and hopeful and triumphant, just like you are describing. I disagree with parts of it (maybe I'm not understanding it). I don't agree about not crying or being afraid because I think you can't be brave without being afraid and I think it takes strength to cry but for the most part I love this poem. Here goes:
Invictus
(by William Ernest Henley)
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate;
I am the captain of my soul.

[nightbird]

I love you, my Friend

peace,
night

[Fuzzybear]

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