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How I healed my Trauma
In the last post I told you how I was sexually abused and raped as a minor. This is not an easy thing to get over or move on from. We live in a Rape Culture where it is socially acceptable.
Many of you will disagree with this statement, but I will just point out that there are at least 50 movies on Netflix right now that depict images or scenes of women being sexually assaulted. This says nothing of the terrible atrocities that are perpetrated against children. The sexualization of children and the objectification of women in mass media is disgusting and deplorable.
We don’t even speak of the crimes against men unless it’s an off hand joke about Catholic priests diddling little boys.
THIS IS NOT A FUCKING JOKE!!!!
As long as we have shows like Family Guy, where 1 of the staple characters is an old man who is a pedophile, or movies that depict women getting raped or make jokes about domestic violence and sexual assault, we as a society will never be able to heal thousands of years of wrong, hurt and injustice.
For myself that healing began with Forgiveness. I do not think most people really understand the definition of the word Forgive. Here is the definition according to Miriam-Webster:
