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Katharine Strange's avatar

This is so real and so beautifully written. The shame passed down by our parents can lodge itself so deeply within us until it feels like the voice of God.

Also, we're you in a "Jesus people" church back in the day? I've heard so much about them...

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Holly Starley's avatar

Beautiful, Paulla! I particularly loved the paragraph this line is from: “I followed the edicts of Christian talk radio men who told me to erase everything I wanted, needed, and longed for.” I so resonate with the call for erasure of self so easily intertwined in religious dogma presented in childhood as THE path.

To your continuing to mine out the parts that need soothed and held and loved.

Thank you for sharing.

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