Category: abuse
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The Ghost of My Mother
Article by Brooke Chang, Pathway to Joy and Healing My mother passed away recently providing insights into my relationship with her and other relationships in my life. I had a complicated relationship with my mother. She left me at age one in Taiwan, first with my maternal grandparents then I was shuttled to my paternal…
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Using Your Dreams for Emotional Healing
Article by W. Brooke Chang, Pathway to Joy and Healing Have you ever had a bad dream and wonder what it means? Dreams are our subconscious minds speaking to us, and therapists may help us analyze the meaning of these dreams. However, you can do your own dream analysis by first becoming self-aware of your…
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Facing My Demons
As many of my readers know, I am involved in a Twin Flame relationship. This relationship will push us to our limits and force us to face the unresolved demons still within us. This past weekend, I observed myself revert back to my demon of jealousy, anger, and feeling unworthy. I also am understanding how…
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Loving Fearlessly
When we live without fear, we are able to love fearlessly. After five years of emotional healing and spiritual work, I finally learned to love fearlessly. My fears of abandonment, being unloveable, and rejection are in my past, and I am living a different life now. Recently, when I went through a box of old…
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In the End
In the end, everything works out for the best. Over four years ago, I was involved in a destructive triangle with two Kundalini active people. As I was abused as a child, this was the dynamic from my childhood. These two individuals were married to others when they became emotionally and energetically involved. The irony…
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Family Karma
This weekend, I spent time with my favorite cousin. She is a schizophrenic who has recovered amazingly well and is living a full and productive life. Our time together was learning about each other, since we have not spent much time together since childhood. This was an important weekend together since it gave us the…
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Building Trust
As many of my readers know about my history, my father was a philanderer who lied to my family to hide his philandering. As an adult, I became attracted to philanderers and liars. My resulting adult life was filled with angst of distrusting men and suspicious of their intentions and actions. In the recent past,…
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First Step to Transformation
It has taken me most of this lifetime to find inner peace. It has always been illusive to me because I wanted to control everyone, everything, and all situations around me. As a person who experienced childhood abuse, this is the natural response after experiencing trauma. Most people are on auto pilot using the same…
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Accepting the End
When I saw this above meme, I realize it was speaking to me. For the past five years, I have been letting go of everything I have ever known or understood about my own life. It is a gradual process of releasing my ego’s identity and how I see myself. It is the Dark Night…
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Healing the Trifecta
There are three other members of my immediate family, including my parents and my younger brother. Because of the abuse and dysfunctions within my family, which I believe is our family karma, I needed to overcome the abuse and dysfunctions of my family, including the roles I played with each member of my family. About…
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