There is no end to healing
Once we start the work of healing we find that we are unfurling to be more fully ourselves and in embracing healing we are in fact embracing the fullness of ourselves
Growing up in a home with mentally ill adults (like I did) has more consequences than most people realize. Beyond the emotional and mental damage it inflicts, there is long term physiological damage and the added fact that we often did not learn the basic skills for human functioning due to neglect. As a parent, I see my role teaching and supporting my kids so that they know and understand themselves physically, emotionally, mentally and socially. And within those categories they know how to care for themselves in practical ways as they develop and move through life and all its delights, and challenges.
My parents did not do their job. Out of necessity I became my own parent. As unjust as it is, when parents harm their kids instead of raising them, we enter adulthood with the enormous responsibility of both healing ourselves and doing the work our parents didn’t do–we raise ourselves. Until I married Kendall, I was all I had. I’ve known this fact since I was a child. I knew no one wou…