FLASHBACKS

Flashbacks take us back to the past.  Takes us to a place where we feel trapped.  We envision the trauma that affected us so much that to us it feels so very real, as if we are reliving the abuse all over again.  Visually, we see the abuse happening, we feel it in our every fibre of our being, we hurt all over again. 

The demons have woken up, taking over our minds again, recapturing us, removing us from the present and again taking away our self-esteem that we had started to build up again.

Scared, and defeated, we often feel that sometimes we can't come back to the present quick enough.  WE stay frozen, reliving over and over again all the abuse that stole our innocence, or in the case of Domestic Abuse stole so much of a person's self respect and self-worth, leaving them feeling "nothing."

Our self-worth and self-esteem have been destroyed, leaving us vulnerable to the demons who destroyed it.  We often cannot break free of the flashbacks, whether it was one flashback in particular, or more than one.

We need to realize that the flashbacks that consume us are not going to hurt us any more.  We need to let it come, realize it is there, and then say "Ok, you can now leave, you can't hurt me any more, I am now free of you.  You were my demon, but now you are NOTHING."

We need to remember to always be kind to ourselves as we are healing, remind ourselves that we are worth so much, that we are a loving person, a beautiful person, one who has survived abuse, one who is now free from the abuse that invaded our bodies, our minds and our souls..Don't let the demons who abused you win...make them small, so that they can't hurt us any more..You are the winner, because you came through the abuse whether it was from childhood abuse, like I came through, or Domestic abuse, we are all winners, we are all SURVIVORS!!!!!

written by Mary Graziano

October 16, 2012

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