I can relate to where you are Tim. After 4 plus years of recovery work I am enjoying some of the same opportunities for my creativity to flourish again. But I am 78 and recently went NO CONTACT with my whole family, including my highly educated and successful 3 adult children and teenage grandchildren. So I know there will probably be more healing challenges ahead for me. Because despite the horrible ways my children have treated me, I do hope they will see the light and want to know the TRUTH about my life and what my parents did to me, especially now that they are both gone. But I can’t live the rest of my life hoping that will happen. And if I do get the opportunity to work on those relationships, it won’t be easy. So I think healing ❤️🩹 will always be ongoing for me. And that’s Ok. We just never know what lies ahead, what’s around that next turn. I guess because I’ve experienced so much Trauma, beyond my childhood, I know that to be true.
I can relate to where you are Tim. After 4 plus years of recovery work I am enjoying some of the same opportunities for my creativity to flourish again. But I am 78 and recently went NO CONTACT with my whole family, including my highly educated and successful 3 adult children and teenage grandchildren. So I know there will probably be more healing challenges ahead for me. Because despite the horrible ways my children have treated me, I do hope they will see the light and want to know the TRUTH about my life and what my parents did to me, especially now that they are both gone. But I can’t live the rest of my life hoping that will happen. And if I do get the opportunity to work on those relationships, it won’t be easy. So I think healing ❤️🩹 will always be ongoing for me. And that’s Ok. We just never know what lies ahead, what’s around that next turn. I guess because I’ve experienced so much Trauma, beyond my childhood, I know that to be true.
Huumm... that sounds quite a bit sad to be honest. I hope your decision doesn't make you bitter.
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