As a six-year-old little girl, I learned to keep the secret of my stepdad’s nightly visits into my room. The Secret I couldn’t tell anyone for fear they would be hurt if they found out. I carried that secret with me throughout my childhood and it ate me up inside. I developed undiagnosed OCD as […]
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Am I the only one who has spent their entire life too afraid to even try? I am now over 60 years old, and I realize that I have missed so many opportunities in the past 6 decades because I was too terrified to step outside my comfort zone. I decided that 2024 would be my year to take
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My youngest child, and only son, is 35 years old and he was born with Down Syndrome. After his birth, the neonatologist came in my hospital room and sat down and explained to me that he had Trisomy 21, Down Syndrome. I was devastated. Am I Strong Enough? I knew that he needed a strong
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I’ve walked this earth for 55 years feeling as if I were a dead person. I woke up every day, I raised my children, I went to college, and I went to work, but I was a living shell. I wanted to be happy, I wanted to be in loving family, and I wanted to
There were no bars surrounding me I could have walked away at any time But I felt I could not I believed that God held me hostage Hostage to the marriage vows I took He did not care if I had made a mistake… It was too late and now I am trapped I had