We are the fuel ....

If someone breaks into your home, emotionally and physically beats everyone, takes everything, and/or even rapes you...

People will support you and scream for justice! 

But, when those abuses happen over time and it is someone within a family perpetrating the crimes..... 

People tell you to be quiet. Don't shame the family. Just let go...

This is how we treat survivors of abuse, especially adult survivors of child abuse. We tell them to shut up - we tell them the exact opposite of what we tell survivors of crimes committed by strangers...knowing that those are rare, it is the ones that happen behind closed doors, those crimes that go on to shape our society with hurting people in charge <--- those heinous crimes, are everywhere....

We tell them to carry the family shame to their grave, alone as we sit on our couches watching some reality t.v. laughing at others, being abused....sitting at our feet are our children, looking down, absorbing their surroundings - isolated, held hostage by another layer of dysfunction, socially acceptable behaviors of dysfunction...

So...shhhhhhuuuuuuuush, right? 

Anyhow - it's Wednesday...

Be Well 💜💜💜

Enjoy the song....