Category: Healing
How to Overcome Emotional Pain After Abuse
Do you have a hard time overcoming emotional pain? Is it difficult for you to overcome past emotional hurts? Read this story to learn how to overcome emotional pain and move forward. I understand the agony of letting go of past emotional hurts. Know the struggle of overcoming emotional pain. Have suffered from child abuse,…
How to Overcome Living in Fear
Do you want to stop living in fear? Fear is a powerful, gripping feeling of anxiety or apprehension about a situation or event. It’s an emotional reaction to pain, danger, and the consequences of sin. Abuse victims who live in fear are paralyzed and trapped in hopeless relationships. The desire to fight or flee diminishes…
How To Overcome The Abuse Victim Identity
Saying goodbye in an open letter using self-reflective writing helps you acknowledge the ill-treatment endured, process the consequences, and overcome the abuse victim identity. This is my open goodbye letter. Dear Abuse Victim, Unfortunately, you suffered ill-treatment as a child and grew up in a dysfunctional family without the parental and spiritual guidance to live…
Open Letter to Parents
I wrote this sincere “Open Letter to Parents” back in 2014. I was putting the broken pieces (called life) back together at the time. I was healing emotionally from child abuse and domestic violence and spiritually from years of living in darkness with fear. Dear Parents, I’m mad as Hell at you! The life you prepared…
Parental Rejection – Why My Mother Rejected Me
Parental rejection is difficult for a child to understand, and the effects of a parent’s rejection can be long-term. Perhaps my story will help others to understand their own parent’s rejection. My Story of Parental Rejection As a child and young adult, I could never understand why my mother rejected me and never showed her love…
About
I have lived through childhood abuse and domestic violence, and I write about the wisdom that can emerge through the journey of healing—what we can understand, reclaim, and ultimately transform from what we have survived.
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Childhood abuse can leave wounds that shape the way we see ourselves, our relationships, and the world around us. Our past, however, does not have to determine our future.
Through personal stories, faith-filled encouragement, practical insights, and honest reflection, Abuse Journal offers hope for adult survivors seeking healing and freedom.
More than a memoir, The Secret Darkness invites every survivor who wonders if healing is possible. It is a story of resilience, redemption, and the life-changing hope that your past does not have to define your future—and that freedom can be found beyond yesterday’s shadows.
L.M. CARLETON
Rescued by Grace