Learning Rest: Dealing with C-PTSD

I may seem bold on here, but believe me when I say that the bold things are written after I’ve had a major breakdown.

How Modesty Teachings Hurt Men, Too

I continue to see the effects of such teachings as the boys I grew up with are now men.

Kevin Swanson, Child Abuse, and Dead Little Bunnies: Kathi’s Thoughts

“I had never heard of Kevin Swason until after I got done homeschooling. That’s how out of touch with the Christian homeschool movement I was during my homeschooling period. When he did a show on March 18th titled, How to Recover from Sexual Abuse, I had to listen.”

I Am Not A Spartan

“Emotions were a failed sinful part of our human bodies and not to be trusted or allowed a voice. Those friends were the ones who made me feel ashamed of the glorious, beautiful, redeemed emotions that the Lord of the Universe has created within me. Hear me say this: I am gloriously emotional and I am a gift.”

I Am Not A Victim, I Am A Survivor

“There are times, like when I’m writing a post like this, that I feel much the same way I did that day: defeated, humiliated, like a victim, but then I remember, I’m a survivor. I fought, and clawed my way towards finally getting the right to start my own life, and won. I survived the toxic self hatred and ignorance of fundamentalism, and cast it aside.”

Coming Out: Kierstyn King

“I’m bisexual. It took me a long time to admit to myself due years of repressing my sexuality growing up, years of feeling guilty because I wasn’t completely straight – but I embrace it now, I love this about me, and it’s so freeing to be open about it.”