It takes a fine balance to stand this tall facing life's "lessons"

THEY BURNED WOMEN LIKE ME AT THE STAKE LONG AGO.

 

So it should come as no surprise that I was burned -- as in Burn Notice burned -- out of my career in these purportedly modern times.

 

I recall when I was going through the worst of that dread part of my life, feeling like I would lose my sanity and, in that state, do unspeakable, damaging things to myself or others, my Beloved Boyfriend uttered, 

Only justice will make it right.

 

Still today I suffer Post Traumatic Syndrome Disorder effects from that prolonged, systematic, yet absolutely personal attack and abuse.

One of the worst is that I walk through this world I love, interact with people I care profoundly for at a spiritual level, and I seem to trust … but I never trust. 

 

Perhaps I will never trust again.

 

Perhaps few of us ever truly trust ... we are so guarded against being burned.

 

The real problem preventing our proper healing from hurts is that there seems to be no justice.

 

Battered but still breathing

 

Sometimes I feel I can't breathe. Only sometimes. Despite everything, I am happy to be alive and be just who I am. If more people could feel that way, there would be less need for justice in our world.

 

How? It is a basic, fundamental, natural magic kind of fact about human beings:

People who love themselves simply do not try to hurt others.

 

In fact, what they do try to do is NOT hurt others.

 

There is massive irony in this: the things about us that most makes broken people attack, are the same things that save us from going mad under those attacks.

 

So can you wish those things were not a part of you? I say, “Nay!”

 

I do so hope when you touch the links to my other blogs (below), you'll realise each most recent post deals particularly with carrying on in the face of challenges.

 

Come Covid; come cutthroat connivers posing as capable authorities; come sometimes wishing to turn into a cold-hearted killer, breathe through your woes and carry on into some good and productive work.

 

That’ll keep your head on. That will help focus the inner fires.

 

Peace, love and peppersauce

 

You can break, or you can break away and reach for bluer skies.

Linking is the way to go

Politics is for before election. Governance is for after. Perhaps those in power fail to live up to that because they forget what patriotism is for. Read more: Patriot: fact or act?

 

It’s easy to “fly the flag of our fathers” when everything is honky-dory and worth celebrating, but isn’t it more important and needed when challenges are the order of the day? Read on: Flagging love for my land

 

Immunogenic is the way to go to combat endometriosis AND Covid besides. Read how: Breath, Aye, Immunity

 

Breathe and take a break. Simple advice. Simple plan. Engage!

Read: Happiness breaks heal all how

 

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