Category: Healing
Making Better Choices for An Abundant Life
Change begins with making better choices for an abundant life. Your choices are often the result of parental guidance or the lack thereof. Parental supervision and your physical environment influence your mindset and dictate your decisions in adulthood. My choices and decisions created severe pain and anguish. In my early twenties, I was flat broke,…
How to Love a Man Without Being Sexual
It’s possible to love a man without being sexual. Say what? I grappled with this problem for over twenty years and discovered the answer. And no, it’s not through his stomach, so hold the biscuits and gravy. How to Love a Man Without Being Sexual – a blog post to answer my daughter’s comment on “Why…
How Men Show They Are in Love
How Men Show They Are in Love – a follow-up post, in conclusion, to “How to Love a Man Without Being Sexual.“ Over the years, our father unknowingly taught his daughters that men show their love for a woman by having sexual relations with her. Having witnessed inappropriate sexual contact repeatedly, I developed an abnormal…
How To Attract A Man The Right Way
Trying to catch a man is hard. Getting him to fall in love is easy when you know how to attract a man correctly. I’m embarrassed to post this picture of myself. However, in 2013, I was not ashamed to upload this one without the burning X effect and similar photos to a dating website.
Why Doesn’t My Mom Love Me
Why doesn’t my mom love me? Growing up with my mother was a constant battle. For many years, I thought, “My mom doesn’t love me.” Her behavior towards my siblings and me was utterly repulsive. My mom chose to favor her sexually abusive husband, who was a pedophile, over her children. At the age of…
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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