Here is a brave response that my client gave to her father, after many years of abusive bullying:  "Yesterday you said it was in your nature to be disrespectful and impatient, and I let it go as always, but it needs to be addressed. I want you to understand that it's in my nature to protect myself from that type of disrespectful behavior. It hurts me that I have to say this because you're my only dad but I wish...

Have you thought about this?  As you go about your day taking care of others, nurturing others - have you ever wondered - what about me?  When will it be my turn?  This is the current just below the surface of our stories, for so many of us.  See these beautiful violets?  If they don't get enough sun and water they will die.  Consider yourself an exquisite flower!  What flower are you?  How much do you nurture your garden?  Only...

Do you see this flower? It is you! So beautiful and glowing and alive. The river flows behind and through it. You are the flower, the river, and the riverbank. You are woman, mother, and the bearer of Life (whether or not you gave birth to children.) You are so much more powerful than you think. Stand in your own power, your own beauty. Take back your Power. It is yours to claim. We stand tall and strong with you.

This is an incredible read!  We can be subjected to these tactics on an individual level, and on a larger scale in the political realm.  With this knowledge we can achieve clarity and move to action to Empowerment! "20 Diversion Tactics Highly Manipulative Narcissists, Sociopaths And Psychopaths Use To Silence You

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"Every time we don't stand down the primary abusers in our lives, we lose a little ground, we fade into the night, we die a little inside.  Rising above it may be a temporary balm, but at some point, we have to come back into our bodies and speak it.  As important as it is to reach a stage of genuine forgiveness where possible, it is even more important to assert boundaries with those who have violated ours.  It may...

"One thing I have learned with certainty is not to stand in connection with those who diminish me.  This is particularly difficult when family is involved, because we have a vested interest in perpetuating the family system for all kinds of reasons. I don't believe one should endure abuse no matter how attached they are to an idea of family.  There are many families waiting for us just outside our habitual awareness.  We are not responsible for those who diminish...

  "The armored man is afraid of his heart, he is afraid of the empowered feminine, he is afraid of surrendering his egoic shield to something deeper, truer, more heartfelt.  What he doesn't realize is that we are inextricably linked, so linked that when he denigrates the feminine, he imprisons and denigrates his own consciousness.  There can be no victories at the expense of the Divine Mother.  None at all.  It is time for a new paradigm, one that honors...