alice miller

My Freedom ROCKS! Emotional Healing and Self Love

Posted: May 11, 2012 Under: Freedom Rocks By Darlene Ouimet 124 Comments

My Freedom ROCKS!! I have decided to throw my Freedom Rock in the pond in our pasture right here on our farm over 1800 miles away from the child abuse that I suffered but where the emotional abuse of my childhood continued even as an adult and where my depressions increased until I no longer … Continue reading "My Freedom ROCKS! Emotional Healing and Self Love"

Hoarders Illustrating Psychological Abuse and Protecting Abusers

Posted: August 11, 2011 Under: Family By Darlene Ouimet 96 Comments

When all the focus is on the person who had the disorder, “sick” is communicated as a justification for what is in this case, psychological abuse. This communicates that the feelings of the person who is perpetrating the damage are more important than anything or anyone else and the dysfunction is preserved.

Dysfunctional Family Law and Family Belief Systems

Posted: July 31, 2011 Under: Family By Darlene Ouimet 55 Comments

Sometimes we are taught rules and ways of living in a dysfunctional family system that are not good for us. Sometimes we are taught to accept ways of living that are even illegal but we accept these dysfunctional teachings as truth. Sometimes the family system is dysfunctional and we learn that the law in the home is not the same as the law of the land

When “Leave Well Enough Alone” Involves Crime against Children

Posted: June 11, 2011 Under: Family By Darlene Ouimet 77 Comments

When we want to talk about the past, about injustice, psychological or emotional abuse, sexual abuse, or even just having been hushed or ignored, so often we are told to leave it alone or let it go, but when we are told that it is “well enough” as it is, it is like being slapped. It is a re-abuse.

Adult Victims of Child Abuse Still Need to be Heard

Posted: June 08, 2011 Under: Family By Darlene Ouimet 118 Comments

I found out that millions of people struggling with depression, addictions, post traumatic stress, self harm issues, dissociative identity disorder and many many other issues also struggle with this same confusion around the dysfunctional family system and the accepted protection and “respect” for the “authority” who is so often the perpetrator of abuse and emotional mistreatment instead of regard for the child victim

Emerging from Broken

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