I’m thankful I’ve lived long enough to know the beauty of forgiveness. I remember the first time I wrote down a forgiveness list. It was December 27, 2016. I had decided to do a 5 Days of Forgiveness Challenge...
I can’t say I know any woman who at some point in her life hasn’t been able to identify herself as a wounded woman. By wounded I mean hurt…deeply. My truth is I myself have spent much of my life in an out of this identity, this reality, fighting with this label…
One of the biggest things I’ve ever had to forgive was the perceived betrayal and abandonment of a former lover. We had been together for years, simultaneously wounding, vicariously living in and off of each other’s misery. Him unable to forgive me. ..
As I sat there, I realized that I had never really called my first real relationship abusive. I mean it was abusive and I knew this but to actually say out loud, verbally, with my mouth, my voice, my words that “I was in an abusive relationship when I was 14” was new…
