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Sorry, it's long. If it inspires just one...for you...
I have made a connection!
My birthdays were times when the family got together, got drunk and fought.
Christmas was about things and stuff! Tons of stuff. No connections between us. No memory making. No caroling. No chestnuts roasting in an open fire.
It was more like
"Grandma ran over a reindeer.
Grandpa called my mother every name in the book.
Daddy tried to help, by feeding mama,
mama grew to the size of a pastry cook".
I was given the message deeply that I didn't deserve what I had and I didn't deserve what I needed.
My night terrors were spent alone at the top of the stairs sweating and hyperventilating. It NEVER occurred to me to run to a parent for arms to hold.
I graduated early and did not return for the graduation rituals and celebrations. I did not have baby showers for either pregnancies. I never had a birthday anything for many many years.
No Valentine Day. Never married.
The connection is this:
My deepest belief is that I do not deserve to have a family that creates loving holiday rituals and celebrations for each other.
Rather than fret and morn the lost years and do my annual depression. I am going to "post it note" all over my home a new thought that I am going to get deep into my being...
It is this:
I deserve to have enjoyable holidays and celebrations with my loved ones. I can receive love and gifts as well as give freely to others.
WOW!
I have made a connection!
My birthdays were times when the family got together, got drunk and fought.
Christmas was about things and stuff! Tons of stuff. No connections between us. No memory making. No caroling. No chestnuts roasting in an open fire.
It was more like
"Grandma ran over a reindeer.
Grandpa called my mother every name in the book.
Daddy tried to help, by feeding mama,
mama grew to the size of a pastry cook".
I was given the message deeply that I didn't deserve what I had and I didn't deserve what I needed.
My night terrors were spent alone at the top of the stairs sweating and hyperventilating. It NEVER occurred to me to run to a parent for arms to hold.
I graduated early and did not return for the graduation rituals and celebrations. I did not have baby showers for either pregnancies. I never had a birthday anything for many many years.
No Valentine Day. Never married.
The connection is this:
My deepest belief is that I do not deserve to have a family that creates loving holiday rituals and celebrations for each other.
Rather than fret and morn the lost years and do my annual depression. I am going to "post it note" all over my home a new thought that I am going to get deep into my being...
It is this:
I deserve to have enjoyable holidays and celebrations with my loved ones. I can receive love and gifts as well as give freely to others.
WOW!
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I have been here before, a long long time ago and now I am back.Forgive me for not just saying what I want to say,even under a triple dose of antidepressants it is still raw and seeping and I am hesitant at revealing it as at least under the bandages around my heart I don,t have to look at how raw and wounded.My child was cleaved from my heart by his own actions. my child of ten,turning eleven...
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Has anyone tried these supplements? Do they give MGers more quality of life by improving memory and overall well being?Thanks!Barbel
You ar worthy and you deserve this!
Make that your mantra and believe....
then MAKE them. all YOURS, they begin with u. pretty awesome.
what i did...and now my daughter keeps them going...and on and on...
:D
xoxo Di