Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals. – Martha Beck

It is said that within each of us is an inner child. This inner child holds hurts, betrayals, and abuse from our pasts. I have read several books that have chapters related to this very concept. My issue with this phenomenon is I run from it. I have skipped the chapters in several books on healing from abuse that were related to this very concept out of fear. This fear started when I attempted an exercise that was geared towards connecting with my inner child. The exercise didn’t work initially but during meditation I had a vision sort of like a daydream of my inner child. This vision left me horrified at what I saw. My inner child was sitting in a chair and she blamed me for allowing others to hurt her. She blamed me for allowing my ex narcissist husband exploit me and she said she hated me. At the core of her being I could see brokenness, pain, resentment, unforgiveness, and intense trauma; of course I chalk it up as repressed emotions and anger that is targeted at myself. It caused me to realize that deep inside I am holding on to bitterness and anger towards myself for the choices I have made. Choosing not to standup for myself and choosing to stay in a bad situation for too long. At some point I would like to explore the inner child exercises again but right now I am not ready to make peace with my inner child.

If you are someone who has successfully completed inner child work, please comment and share your experience. I’m interested in learning what techniques work and how long it takes before healing in that area can take place.

People who surrender their former religious beliefs have got to be some of the smartest and bravest people in the world. Because they set out to find truth even while under the threat of eternal damnation. – Unknown.

I think Mr. Walsch’s perspective is pretty awesome. Back when I attended church I remember wondering why God would allow Job’s family to die because they cursed him. In the back of my mind I wondered if it was a metaphor and didn’t truly mean death.  The pastor left me with the understanding that God is not to be questioned. I wondered how someone can understand if they are not willing to question the very things they don’t understand. My children ask me questions all the time regarding things they don’t understand. Like the author in the video, I demanded God give me answers of course I wasn’t contemplating suicide but nevertheless I did question God in a threatening way. My life was a mess. I had finally kicked my husband of 6 years out of my home. A man who I believed was suffering from Antisocial Personality Disorder based off of research I had conducted. My thoughts were regardless if he is suffering from the disorder or not, I was tired of being abused and had finally put my foot down.

Sadly removing him from my life didn’t solve my problems but instead open up a range of new problems. I was left broken and untrusting of everyone around me. I was employed, attending church, and stable but inside I could not get past the anger and the brokenness I felt. Not all of it stemmed from the toxic marriage but a nice portion of it was directly rooted in my childhood. I went to church asking for help because I felt I was falling into a dark hole. This dark hole was depression. I kept myself so busy and occupied with work, church, and being a mother that I didn’t take the time to grieve. I pushed all my problems to the back of my mind. I felt crying was not an option because I had already done so much of it, I felt being angry wasn’t an option because anger was not going to solve anything. This led me into the denial phase. A phase in which I pretended I was good and my life was fantastic. I often spoke about God’s goodness and how blessed I was. I always smiled and was pleasant whenever I was out and about. In reality I was a time bomb waiting to explode.

I was filled with suppressed emotions. I am not sure what exactly set me off. I just remember one night I lost it. My daughters were sleeping and I was searching the internet for Christian videos on healing. I came across so many websites that all promised they had the true format and the true gospel for salvation. I remember thinking maybe I was in the wrong denomination. I was shocked to see that every Christian website promised the same things but did not provide evidence supporting their claims. At that moment I snapped and said “Well God, how the heck am I supposed to know which bible to read or what church to attend?” the question was asked in contempt… Of course I didn’t wait for God to answer or speak to my soul but went right into my next sarcastic disrespectful phrase and that was “I guess you like to play games huh, not make things clear, watch us scatter to find salvation….” I then demanded God give me an answer to why inside I was a mess and how to fix myself. I went on to say “if I don’t hear from you I will become an atheist and you can just kick rocks because I will never speak to you again.” Of course after doing this I immediately felt fear and wondered when he would put me to death as he did with Job’s family. That didn’t’ happen instead something spoke to my soul. It was a gentle soothing voice that expressed that I was loved and that my questions would be answered. Of course the answers I received were not what I expected so I went through a phase of what I call avoiding God. I didn’t speak to God and went back to pretending I was fine. I even went to church only to take my children by the hand and walk out in the middle of the service.

I felt God had spoken to my heart that night when I snapped, stating he would teach me about life and I was to abandon everything I believed to be truth as it related to him. My thoughts were this can’t be God it must be the devil because I pretty much did what Job’s family did and that was curse God. Everything that was preached the day I walked out of service seemed like total bullshit. In my heart I knew I needed to do what I felt my spirit was moving me to do and that was abandon everything I believed about God and spirituality. It was time to start over. Considering the fact that my bible would not be a reference I put it away and conducted internet searches to alternatives relating to spirituality. I found that I was not the only one who had cursed God and demanded answers. Ironically many who did ended up finding fulfilling spiritual paths to take and experienced healing on levels some claimed they never imagined. My search ultimately led me to higher consciousness and oneness. It wasn’t until my spiritual path was redirected that I began to experience true healing.

The power of words and mantras

Posted: December 25, 2014 in emotional healing

Words have power, take a moment to think about this very subject… I will help you visualize exactly what I mean. Imagine a friend who is hurt or disappointed. You can change that friend’s very mood with the power of words. Perhaps it is sharing an uplifting quote or scripture. Let’s consider a child that is being teased in school and called names by their peers. That child can develop anxiety, depression, and a poor self-worth.  Words hold power and while words can’t be touched they can be felt at the subconscious and emotional level.

As a young women despite my childhood filled with domestic violence, I had goals and I would say a decent level of self-esteem. It could have used some improvement but for the most part I was confident in who I was and where I was headed. I was determined not to allow my childhood to get in the way of my goals. After getting involved with my ex-husband I watched the confidence I had vanish. I remember looking in the mirror and hating the person I saw. I felt she was weak, insecure, stupid, and unlovable.

Where did all of this come from? It came from the many times my ex told me how stupid I was or made a sarcastic comment about how I need to think and not be a dummy. Initially entering the relationship I believed I was intelligent and could think for myself. After being told how stupid I was over and over even though I knew better the words started to take power. I started to believe them and that belief manifested in my walking life. I began to question my own eyes, my thoughts, and my emotions. I made mistakes that could have been avoided had I only trusted myself. I had no clue that words could be used in a way to influence my mind and eventually bleed into my life.

Sometime after getting out of the relationship and enrolling in college, I had frequent thoughts regarding how stupid I was regardless of the fact that I was making straight A’s every term. With close analyzes I quickly realized there were not my thoughts but thoughts that had been planted in my mind by my abusive ex for the purpose of controlling me. I had heard the negative phrases so much that they rooted in my subconscious mind as facts. I wondered how I could change this. After conducting research on how to reprogram the subconscious mind I found that mantras and body taps were very effective in doing so.

I wrote out a few mantras and would say them in the shower making sure to pat my shoulders, the heart area of my chest and my forehead gently.  I would also say the mantra’s while looking in the mirror. I would repeat until I felt a shift. Sometimes I would be brought to tears and other times I would become over joyed. It was as if something in my soul said a loud “NO IT ENDS TODAY!” I realized it was not my fault and that I had been manipulated into believing those negative things about myself. However, I was responsible for fixing ME.

The mantra’s I said were:

  1. I AM intelligent and I trust MY intuition.
  2. I AM loveable.
  3. I AM strong.
  4. I AM confident

By simply speaking these mantra phrases over and over you can realign your subconscious mind. Other mantras that are helpful include the following:

  1. I AM in control.
  2. I AM friendly.
  3. I AM successful.
  4. I AM outgoing.
  5. I AM beautiful.
  6. I AM Stable.

Use these even if you don’t believe them when you say them. Your subconscious mind will pick up on the patterns and before you know it your life will begin to transform.

Although I take a cosmic approach to the information I share here on this blog, I felt this was appropriate. The message is universal and no matter what spiritual path we are on we can relate. Enjoy.

This term I took a class called “English Composition II” one of the class assignments required the class write a cause and effect essay. I chose to write my essay on the topic Daughters of Absent Fathers. I wanted to write about how a father’s absence can directly affect his daughter in adult life. In order to write a solid essay I needed to conduct research on the topic. I chose creditable sources and reviewed all the statistical information I could find online.

As I read the research and mentally processed it I realized as a daughter of an absent father I needed to connect with my father if I wanted to truly heal. I had not been in contact with my father since I was about 6 or 7 years old. Through my brother I was able to get my fathers phone number. I called him but did not get an answer so I left a voice-mail. As I left the message for him I felt my body shaking uncontrollably. This deep fear started to rise up. It was a very uncomfortable feeling of uncertainly. After leaving the voice-mail I hung up and then the “what ifs” started to cloud my mind. “What if he doesn’t call back?” “What if he doesn’t want me?” “What if he ends up being a monster?” At that very moment I realized just how deeply I felt I needed not just a daddy… but my biological daddy.

I decided if he calls me back good and if he doesn’t at least I know how deeply I feel I need him and could continue working on myself. About 10 minutes after leaving the voice-mail he sent a text to my phone saying he was at work and would call me later. I felt this intense joy fill my spirit. I kept my phone by my side everywhere I went up until the point when he called me back. I told him I would come and visit with him on Sunday because he didn’t want to talk over the phone but wanted to talk face to face.

The night before I put together a collection of things I wanted to share with him, so that he could get an understanding of who I am and what I have done with my life. Just being in his presence and realizing just how much I take from him was extremely healing. For the first time in my life I felt complete and as if I knew who I was. He is the other half of my soul. The missing link that makes me who I am. I’m so happy to be given the opportunity to know my father and develop a relationship with him. I can clearly see how I allowed his absence to define me in all the wrong ways and influence the life choices I made.

My father’s wife says “God placed in every child a desire to seek their biological parents in order to find their selves and this is the reason adopted kids grow up knowing something is wrong even when they have not be told they are adopted.” Being reunited with my father healed a broken part of my soul and has seemed to balance me out. I realized every relationship I have entered I entered it hoping to somehow find the things that only my father could give me.

The biggest lesson I have learned is forgiveness is and will always be essential for life. Everyone makes mistakes and none of us are flawless. We are human, in order for peace to happen we must forgive and move forward. I thank the universe for allowing me to have this opportunity and I’m grateful that my journey to recovery has been so blissful.

Many people who are survivors of abuse end up suffering from PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder). PTSD is the aftermath or the residue left behind after a traumatic experience.  According to webmd.com Symptoms of PTSD are often grouped into three main categories which include:

  • Reliving: People with PTSD repeatedly relive the ordeal through thoughts and memories of the trauma. These may include flashbacks, hallucinations, and nightmares. They also may feel great distress when certain things remind them of the trauma, such as the anniversary date of the event.
  • Avoiding: The person may avoid people, places, thoughts, or situations that may remind him or her of the trauma. This can lead to feelings of detachment and isolation from family and friends, as well as a loss of interest in activities that the person once enjoyed.
  • Increased arousal: These include excessive emotions; problems relating to others, including feeling or showing affection; difficulty falling or staying asleep; irritability; outbursts of anger; difficulty concentrating; and being “jumpy” or easily startled. The person may also suffer physical symptoms, such as increased blood pressure and heart rate, rapid breathing, muscle tension, nausea, and diarrhea.

After I ended my relationship with my abuser, I felt this new-found freedom. I did not have to walk on egg shells and I felt peace. I was so happy once things began to fall into place. I would say once my life became stable I started to slowly fall into this deep dark depression. I did not understand it at all. Looking back I think it is safe to say I was so busy rebuilding my life that I didn’t have the time to deal with my emotions. I pretty much put the abuse and the things I endure in the back of my mind. Once things were calm and I felt content the dark hurt part of my soul began to emerge. It was very hard for me to deal with. The pain was the most terrible pain I had ever experienced. I found myself angry, sad, confused, afraid, irritable, etc. I was accepting of the fact that I had been emotionally and psychologically abused, however I didn’t want to accept that I had been physically abused. I kept telling myself it only turned physical a few times so it doesn’t count. I avoided people, places, and thoughts.

The pain was so intense I stared drinking wine and beer to medicate myself. I knew deep down inside this was not the route to take. I felt if I continued I could be come dependent and destroy my own life. I had to be willing to face this pain and deal with it in a healthier way. I decided to try meditation and to my surprise it worked.  My favorite meditation videos are the forgiveness meditation and the cleansing of negative memories.  Starting out the meditations were both very painful and seemed to pushed me to an emotional place I did not want to visit. I would take a break if it got too painful and try again in an hour or so. I decided to  finish each meditation even if I was brought to tears or triggered intense pain. Each session was more cleansing and I was able release negativity.

PTSD, the way I see it is simply holding negative energy within ones soul. We must release this negative energy in order to live healthy peaceful lives.

Below are links to the meditation videos I mention above If you have questions regarding meditation please click the contact tab and send me a message. I will respond as soon as I can.

As I understand, our emotions are energy that we can’t touch or see in the physical world. Our emotions have the ability to attract to us different realities.

If you spend all your time being angry and bitter you will attract to yourself more situations to reinforce that anger and bitterness. If you spend your time in fear then you will attract the very things you fear.

Our emotions are a guide to the reality we are creating, meaning whatever you feel you are drawing near to yourself. Emotions are vibrational energy, at the lowest vibration there is guilt, hate, anger, insecurity, fear, etc. These low frequency vibrational energies attract negative situations into your life and can attract sickness/disease into your body.

The higher vibrational frequencies are love, happiness, joy, confidence, etc. These high frequency vibrational energies attract positive situations into your life as well as good health.

^ How we feel influences how we think. How we think influences our behaviors. You may hear phrases like “Raise your vibration” in the higher consciousness or new age community this means to keep your vibration in the higher frequency positive energies.

How is this done? Well, you must first take a deep look at your behavior and how you feel daily. Keeping a journal can help with this. Write down your feelings daily and write about situations that may have taken place each day.

You may find the situations in your life are a direct reaction to your energy in motion. We are all expressions of God with the ability to create very much like an artist a reality in the physical world.

Raising your vibrational energies to higher frequency energies can at first be difficult to accomplish, but as the saying goes “Fake it till you make it.” Meaning you may have to think positive thoughts on purpose and/or pretend to feel good even when you don’t. Over time the positive frequencies will come naturally and the faking will not be required.

I personally believe when we attract abusers into our lives, we are vibrating at a low frequency. Many women have stated they were going through an emotional crisis during the time the abuser entered their lives. They reported experiencing the following: grieving the loss of a loved one, grieving a freshly ended relationship, being exposed to severe trauma, feeling lonely, low self-esteem, etc. I believe emotional energy attracts other emotional energy similar in vibrational frequency.

“The Law of Attraction says: That which is like unto itself, is drawn. When you say, “Birds of a feather flock together,” you are actually talking about the Law of Attraction. You see the Law of Attraction evidenced in your society when you see that the one who speaks most about illness has illness; when you see that the one who speaks most about prosperity has prosperity.” – Jerry and Esther Hicks.

During the time I began dating my abuser, my self-esteem and self-image were damaged. I feared ending up in an abusive relationship because as a small child I witnessed my biological father abuse my mother, this experience traumatized me. As an adult I was insecure and desperately wanted to get away from the living situation I was in. I believe these low frequency emotions plus my negative thoughts cause me to vibrate at a similar frequency as my x. I remember feeling a strong almost supernatural pull towards him.

I now attract more positive people and situations into my life. From time to time I give in to negative emotions and thoughts, this will happen. Don’t give up or come down on yourself if it happens to you, just regroup and start again.

Remember if we keep our emotions and our thoughts positive we vibrate at a higher frequency and will attract people, situations, and opportunities in our life that match that vibration frequency. Raise your vibration!

After I ended things with my abuser, I decided to give myself all the things he took away or didn’t give to me. All the promises he made but didn’t follow through on,  I made it a goal to fulfill them on my own. I wanted to have family portraits done and he promised we would but it never happen.

This was the first goal I met on my list, I took my two daughters to a professional studio and we had family portraits done, we ate at restaurants I told him I wanted to try, and I purchased things for the house he said he would buy but never did. I said positive things about myself every morning in the mirror.
Doing the things I mentioned above helped improve my poor self-esteem and self image, however, there was still a lot of work to do. I did not know how to trust myself completely and I didn’t think I could be a leader. I felt my life choices were bad ones and I believed I could not make good ones. I was constantly criticizing myself for being in such a terrible relationship and staying for the amount of time I did.
I wanted to give my children and I a better lifestyle so I decided to enroll in college online. I took a class on future success. The class was called framework. In the class I learned about self-esteem, self image, and the self fulfilling prophecy. The following video was shared with the class. As I watched it I felt so inspired and moved that tears flowed from my eyes. At that very moment I realized I have all the things in me to be successful and transform my life. I’m hoping this video will inspire you.

A self-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true, by the very terms of the prophecy itself, due to positive feedback between belief and behavior.

^ Basically if you believe you are a failure, that belief will influence your behavior causing you to fail. If you believe you will succeed your behavior will reflect that of success.

If you are a victim of emotional abuse below is a list of some of the things you may be experiencing.

  • Anxiety when making simple choices daily.
  • You feel depressed and aren’t sure why.
  • You feel numb or emotionally detached from life.
  • Excessive sleeping, sleep is like a daily escape from your reality.
  • You can’t make a decision or take any steps without first wondering what your partner will think or do, even if it doesn’t have anything to do with them.
  • You don’t trust yourself or your judgment.
  • You think something is wrong with you.
  • You believe you are going crazy.
  • You don’t trust your own memory.
  • You believe you are broken beyond repair.
  • You feel you don’t know who you are or have lost yourself.
  • You spend a significant amount of your energy trying to keep peace between you and your partner.
  • You have been isolated from your friends and family.
  • You fear people and have a mild paranoid suspicion of people around you.
  • You make excuses for your partner’s disrespect, failures, and lack of responsibility; usually the excuse is you blaming yourself.
  • You believe if you just change this, or that about yourself the relationship will be transformed.
  • You feel responsible for your spouse’s life and choices he/she makes.
  • You are always the one compromising and changing yourself.
  • You believe everything is your fault.
  • You feel alone even if your partner regularly spends time with you.
  • You are left to fix relationship problems on your own.

Other signs:

  • Feeling hopeless or suicidal.

fear a crippling emotion

Posted: August 12, 2013 in fear, insecurity, self-doubt

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve; the fear of failure -Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist


Fear is a  thief. This thief creeps in and robs us of our inner peace, faith, joy, hope, trust, etc. It can come in the form of self doubt, anxiety, insecurity, uncertainty, etc. Fear stunts us from making progress and keeps us from over coming obstacles. Fear keeps us committed to people and situations that are beneath our potential.

A Story of Fear

Once upon a time in a village there was a very tall mountain. The people in the village desired to climb this mountain to get to the other side but could not because on this mountain lived a big evil monster.

For years the parents and the elderly warned the children to never climb the mountain. They told the children there is a big evil monster on the mountain and he will not let anyone from the village cross. The children obeyed. One day a group of 5 teenagers decided they would be brave and climb the mountain. The parents and the elderly begged them to reconsider they refused.


As the 5 teenagers headed up the mountain they could see the monster at the top, 2 of the teenagers became scared and decided to go back. The other 3 continued teens continued. They were halfway there and the monster started to scream. This was the most awful scream they had ever heard. It hurt to listen to it and sent  feelings of anxiety through their bodies. Another teenager to go back to the village, the anxiety and uncertainty was too much for him. There were 2 exhausted teens left. The closer they got, the more terrifying the monster became. One of the two went back down the mountain this teen was extremely exhausted and scared.


The last teenager noticed everyone had went back to the village but decided to keep going. The teen focused on how over joyed she would feel once she made it to the other side. The monster continued to scream. The teen continued up the mountain despite being filled with anxiety and trembling in terror. The closer she got to the monster, the smaller it became. She made it to the top of the mountain and picked the monster up in her hand and said who are you? In a little tiny voice the monster replied “My name is fear”


^ I have heard this story many times this is my version of it.


Fear = false evidence appearing real.