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#nomoreabuse empowers individuals to share their stories, raise awareness, and support survivors. It fosters community, encourages healing, advocates for change, and promotes mental health, resilience, and the fight against domestic violence.
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Last March, my daddy died. Eight months later, I made one of the hardest decisions of my life: I stepped away from relationship with my mother and in so doing, set down a burden I’d been carrying for decades. For years, I publicly shared my story of childhood abuse in a religious cult in Moscow, Idaho. But I left out one critical truth: the fact that my own mother orchestrated my abuse by a man 10 years older than me when I was just 13 years old. Even though I witnessed it, it never made sense to me. It probably never will. But one thing finally became clear: I could no longer sacrifice my health and well-being to protect her. While I suffered and struggled through life as a childhood abuse survivor, she lived shielded—not only by the church that defended my abuser and shunned me and my father, but also by me. I didn’t share the rest of my story to dwell in victimhood, add to the brokenness of the world, or create more pain. But my greatest loyalty lies with my husband and my four children, who deserve a better example than a mother who tolerates and justifies abuse simply because it comes from “family.” The process of untangling my mother’s voice from my own has been nothing short of grueling. I didn’t realize it was possible to feel so many emotions at once, or how much of my inner voice had been replaced with hers. After a lifetime of being gaslit, manipulated, and abused, I finally said NO MORE. I don’t expect everyone to understand my decision. I’m the only one who lived my story. I’m the one unraveling the dizzying mess that 37 years of narcissistic abuse created. The thing I thought I could never do—cut ties with my mother while she was still alive—became the very thing I had to do to save my own life and break the generational chains that bind the women in my family. Walking away from her was agonizing. I wanted to save her. I desperately clung to hope that one day she’d wake up, that the Christian values she claims to live by would take root in her actions. But I no longer had the strength to hold on. Or perhaps I’d finally found the courage to let go. I will always love my mother, but our journey together in this lifetime has ended. I have willingly orphaned myself so my children can have what I never did—a mother who chooses healing, truth, and unconditional love over silence, shame, and abuse. ⛓️💥🦋❤️🩹 (If you’re interested, you can read more of my story on my pinned IG post, there’s a link in my bio.) #HealingJourney #BreakingGenerationalChains #ChildhoodAbuseSurvivor #ReligiousAbuse #NarcissisticAbuse #FamilyTrauma #SurvivorStory #MentalHealthAwareness #ChooseHealing #NoMoreAbuse #CourageToLetGo #TruthOverSilence #UnconditionalLove #GenerationalHealing
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