I’ve been absent from the electronic world for quite a while now… I’ve been working on a wonderful book called “The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse” by Laura Davis and Ellen Bass.  It’s a wonderful therapeutic tool with several writing and meditation exercises.  This book has taken me on a journey though my anger, my pain and my memories.  Through it I am finding connections to my past in many unexpected places and through many maladaptive coping mechanisms.  I am learning to identify survival techniques that helped me claw my way out of hell but are no longer serving me now.  I am learning to honor those defense mechanisms and to release them.  By no means have I “arrived” but for possibly the first time in my life I am consistently traveling on the road to healing.  If you will permit me I would like to share more of that healing journey with you through sharing my journaling from this wonderful book as well as my writing exercises from it and an honest look at my anger and fear and the relinquishment of the same.  May love and peace find you-may it find me as well.