Are you a Perfectionist? I was!

I had this blog ready to post when it occurred to me that if I was going to blog about being a perfectionist and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder that I should make sure I really understood what they were. So, I googled them and when I started reading the symptoms for OCD I had to laugh, my …

Seeing Criticism For What It Really Is.

Child abuse had left me unable to deal correctly with criticism and distorted my vision of who I was. I was constantly being hurt because I took everything to heart. I was the blame for everything, I was not good enough, so it must be right. That was just not true. Also, Child abuse is …

How I found God.

I was concerned that if I talk too much about God, I might lose some of my followers. But as I think about it, people are following me because they want to know how I recovered from the effects of child abuse, and that recovery was because of God. If I don't tell that story …

How Steadfast Thought Can Change Your Life.

I learned one way to overcome the effects of abuse was to change the way I was thinking. Child abuse garbled my thinking, made me think I was not as good as others. To overcome this, I needed to rethink who I was. I was not bad and deserving of the abuse I got. The …