by Emily Stroia
Healing from abuse can feel like a never-ending walk through the dark. Any traumatic experience can be difficult to process and accept. Speaking from personal experience, it wasn’t until my young adult years when I realized it was time to work through the painful memories of all the physical, sexual, and mental abuse I endured with my parents in my childhood years.
Facing the reality that you are or were abused and suffer with trauma from it is a huge realization. Often times, it may take us a while to begin the process of healing from abuse or even begin to accept that it happened.
There are so many times in my own experience when I questioned if it was my fault and if I was the one to blame for everything. However, through therapy and spiritual healing, I realized abuse is never deserved and that isn’t what real love looks like.
