The Cycle of Abuse Stops With You | The WISDOM podcast | S3 E34

<p></p> <p> </p> 'ask dorothy' <p style="text-align:center;">The Cycle of Abuse Stops With You | A Real Life Client Story</p> The WISDOM podcast  Season 3  Episode 34 <p style="text-align:center;">- There is no power in abuse.  -</p> <p style="text-align:center;">💜</p> <p> </p> <p style="text-align:center;"></p> <p>Ross’s* story is one of psychological and verbal abuse and the damaging effects that cast a pattern of believing and living as a victim. To live your life entrenched in the sadness and suffering of your past is to carry the baggage of victim hood with you. </p> <p> </p> <p>This inner and often outer label that you have given yourself imparts confusion and self-doubt. Its mark is one of unworthiness and feeling undeserving of love. You struggle with this because at your core, you know that you are worthy. It is just that it can be difficult to find and feel evidence for this.</p> <p> </p> <p>The damage inflicted by a repetitive cycle of the trauma of abuse is not entirely known until some later time in our life in which we find ourselves reliving the pattern ~ the experience ~ the rhythm ~ quite innocently. </p> <p> </p> <p style="text-align:center;"> </p> <p>The nature of abuse that begins in childhood can be concealed with the cursory titles of ‘father’ and ‘mother’ ~ of caregiver, family member, elder, sibling, and ‘family friend’. It becomes confusing when a parent or another caregiver is the abuser because this person is supposed to be a protector of our safety and a nurturer of our care and love.</p> <p> </p> <p>As you are listening, this episode will help define your experience. Having a name for the behaviour that you were the recipient of, will give you the ability to better understand why this relationship has been so damaging and why you have continued to suffer. </p> <p> </p> <p align="center">This is how you heal from the damage you have suffered. You heal first as you name the abuse and then as you choose to no longer live it.</p> <p> </p> <p>I recognize that this is a new way of thinking