Harvest Life Gracefully a healing tip from abuse

Harvest Life Gracefully a healing tip from abuse

Survivors typically experience feelings of terror and being overwhelmed. Many experience flashbacks. I find that guided meditation and having a breath prayer helps to reduce anxiety and to center individuals suffering from trauma.

Breath Prayer And Guided Meditation Help Abuse Survivors

Author: Judy Brutz

Survivors typically experience feelings of terror and being overwhelmed. Many experience flashbacks. I find that guided meditation and having a breath prayer helps to reduce anxiety and to center individuals suffering from trauma.
Find a safe place where you are able to pray and experience a guided meditation. Prompts for the guided meditation are included below.
1. Imagine that Jesus or a Holy Presence, who conveys love, acceptance, comfort, and welcome, is by your side. Breathe in the sacredness. It's all right if you do not sense the presence of the sacred. Breathe in and out slowly, noticing how you breath feels. Rest. Allow yourself to relax.
2. Quietly, softly, you are asked, "What is it you want?" You know this is a spiritual question and you consider what your greatest need is. What do you say?
3. You are asked, "What name for God do you prefer to use?" You answer. What name do you say?
4. Take the name and the phrase and play with them, trying different sequencing of words until there is an easy rhythm and your Breath Prayer resonates with you. Notice how the prayer flows with your breathing.
5. Write down your prayer. Place reminders, post-its, in many places, bathroom mirror, a dot on your watch. Make it a practice to say your prayer as you go through doorways, or when you look at the time, or when you go to your computer, or when you pick up your keys. What makes sense for you?
6. Here are examples of Breath Prayers that my hospice patients formed. "God be with me always." "Bless me, Lord." "Jesus, heal me."
To heal and be transformed, seek the help you need from spirituality, social workers, and other sources. You do not need to be alone, or trapped by the trauma you experienced.

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Harvest Life Gracefully-Family Secrets - Telling the Truth - Goodhousekeeping.com

Clicked on the below link, to read an interesting article about keeping family secerets. It clearly explains when a family secret should or should not be told. According to Evan Imber-Black, Ph.D., who is the director of the Center for Families and Health at New York City's Ackerman Institute, and the author of The Secret Life of Families, says it all depends upon the person you keeping the secret from has a right to know or if it is a privacy issue. She says that if the feeling of shame, is part of keeping the secret, a secret, then usually there is a right to know, and should be told.

Family Secrets - Telling the Truth - Goodhousekeeping.com

Harvest Life Gracefully recommend a book to read.

Harvest Life Gracefully recommends reading this book if you had been sexual abuse or know someone that has been sexual abuse. Below is a review from Dennis D. Muhumuza posted today on the Daily Monitor Truth Everyday.

Title: Hush: Moving from Silence to Healing after Childhood Sexual Abuse
Author: Nicole Braddock Bromley
Reviewer: Dennis D. Muhumuza

When she was still a little girl, Nicole Braddock Bromley was sexually abused by her father. Sexual abuse is a global tragedy, with untold victims living in silence for fear of stigmatisation. But it came to a point where Nicole could brook no more. She wanted to help herself and give others the courage to speak out as well. Not only did she break the silence, she topped it with a book, Hush: Moving from Silence to Healing after Childhood Sexual Abuse, in which she stresses that breaking the silence is the first step to healing.

“Silence delays the healing process by perpetuating the hurt, shame and guilt of adult survivors. It imprisons us in a dark closet…it also protects sexual offenders by allowing them to continue to abuse their victims,” she writes. “Telling released me from my past so I could embrace the future.”
Published by WordAlive Publishers, the 181-page book is interspersed with uplifting stories of survivors of abuse who have broken out, forgiven those that hurt them and made a difference. Although counsellors do help, Nicole argues that true healing comes from God. She’s aware that many might not believe God cares by asking questions like, ‘If God loves me, why did this happen?’ She says she was there once and that such questions are normal.

“That said, I also believe that you’ll never find genuine healing outside of a relationship with God,” she notes. “I would be doing you an injustice to tell you that breaking the silence and accepting the truth about your abuse is the end of healing. I’ve heard many speakers say that you should never expect to overcome the pain of sexual abuse. They say that you’ll always feel empty inside because of it…I know from my own experience that knowing God was what quieted my questioning heart and allowed His healing waters to flow in and out of my life…what God has done for me, He is longing to do for you.”

Hush is not at all preachy and is written with a sincerity that emboldens those who are afraid of dealing with an ugly past thrust on them by fate.

Harvest Life Gracefully- Update

Being new to this blogging stuff, I just discovered a wonderful thing! It is probaby a small thing for most, but for me, it is a biggie! I was excited to see that I can make pages on this blog. Since I began blogging, I was confuse on how to, post my story, only in one area on this blog. I am so happy to have found how to do this. So those who may want to follow my story can go to it directly on the My Story Page. Check back from time to time to see if I posted another part to my story, on the "My Story" page.

I will continue to post child abuse awareness information in this section. I will also post more detail information about my steps in how to harvest life gracefully. Other postings will be about healing from abuse, self-esteem, and self-worth.

I hope you will find my blog to be helpful and informative.

Ideas, constructive critcism and comments are more than welcome!

Now lets go and Harvest Life Gracefully