Abuse Hides in the Dark. Turn on Your Light.

Recovery from Domestic Abuse


  • My 101st Post!

    I would have celebrated my 100th post if I had realized that the last post was the 100th! Instead I’ll celebrate it now. I realized that my 100th post is an important one to me. I was able to share MY foundation and support system with another woman and with the readers of my blog,…

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  • My Support System Is My Foundation

    It’s all right that they don’t call ME. The fact that I have benefited and will continue to benefit from their wisdom, education and support is phenomenally important to me. I went from being someone stuck in isolation to being someone who knows who to call and when. More importantly, I learned that my husband’s…

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  • The Universe Makes It Hard Sometimes

    What if this is my smack on the back of the head from the universe? What if I’m being forced in a different direction? What if there’s a different and more reliable way to fund my emergency account? What if what I’m doing is valuable enough to warrant some other type of income plan? A…

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  • Fun Break

    In the spirit of the “good mood” I currently find myself in, I’d like to share a fun, informative site on which you can get a short and lovable handwriting analysis. And a pen recommendation. [Editor’s note: The link to tul.com no longer works. The site is not available.]

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  • My Problem

    I’m an INFJ. I’m thinking that the reason I seem so confusing to myself is because I’m unlike so many other “categories” of the population that I’ve read about. Many of the books I’m reading right now read like the author can “peg” me under a lable that will magically clear my thinking and get…

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  • Separate Selfishness and Self-Interest

    I think I stumbled across the difference between true selfishness and protecting my self-interests. If I am acting selfishly, I will do what makes me happy and take no responsibility for the outcome of my choice. If I am acting out of self-interest, I am willing to take responsibility for my choice. Self-interest does not…

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  • For Myself First

    I was listening to Rush the other day, and he said that it is self-interest that makes our country so great. In other words, because we have the freedom to look out for ourselves, because our destiny is in our own hands, then each of us can rise to the occasion and provide for ourselves…

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