The voices of my abusive past work overtime to destroy my progress. I know that I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me; however, when I take my eyes off of the Truth and look at my circumstances, just like Peter, I begin to sink.
Praise music, Bible study, fellowship with other believers, and a visit to a healthy fruit-bearing church are great remedies for healing the depression and anxiety patterns I developed in my previous life of fear.
When not listening to God’s Holy Spirit, I allow room in my head for the voices who remind me what a failure I am.
My background was so insistent on keeping me out of the public eye. I was warned in a powerful enough way that it took 55 years to overcome.
They led my family and me to believe I would never be accepted into mainstream society because of the defects I could not fix.
That was the proof one parent provided to define my second husband as deceptive. ‘No one as good as I claim him to be would ever take interest in me.’
I was terrified to write because of parental observation and communication about my grammar mistakes, which are part of a traumatized brain.
I was forbidden to live outside the family charade until I left. No one gave a mind share to my hopes and dreams, but they existed. They are finally coming to life out of my battered, abused, held captive until now adored soul.
Recently, a child, led by the deception of a grandparent, asked for proof of my abuse. The smart, talented, beautiful woman that is present today, but never before now, is all the proof anyone needs to recognize the validity of narcissistic abuse that people refuse to acknowledge exists all around us.
My book will equip people to understand what narcissistic abuse is and how it affects otherwise healthy people in deadly ways.
My book will provide light for those in the darkness and wisdom to the blind.
Isaiah 61:1
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