Okay guys, so I'm reeeeeeally technically challenged but managed to figure out how to change my template on Blogger. What do you think? I'm not entirely convinced that it'll stay like this but I'll live with it for awhile.
This has been a crap-ass week. It started last Saturday when Libby's (my Jeep Liberty) battery died. Sigh. And continued on with a health scare with my a-mom. She was having heaviness in her chest and tingling in her arms.
Now, regardless of the fact that my a-dad was a prick my entire life, he DID die of a massive heart attack so I'm very conscious of my mom's physical health. Thankfully (in these emergency circumstances anyway) we only live about fifteen minutes away from her so I was able to get her to the emergency room quickly. She's okay. All of the tests she had came back okay.
I have to tell you, it scared the crap out of me. As much as she drives me nuts and makes me want to tear my hair out, I don't know what I'd do if she passed away. It'd be easy for me to say "Fuck her!" for all the shit she put me through as a child and even as an adult, but it's a lot more complicated than that. Even through all the abusive years and the yelling and the screaming..for better or for worse, she's my mother...just as my n-mom is.
Therapy was craptastic tonight. Just peachy. Bawled my eyes out on the way home...realizing more and more how incredibly fucked up I am in the head. My therapist has this amazing ability to take me to places that I would really rather not revisit. But I have to. I have to close my eyes and see my little five year old self and have actual conversations with her...I have even rocked her in my arms and cried with her. I have talked to the Keeper of the Secrets..my eight year old self. Tonight I tried to break through the fear and get the Keeper to let me help the littler one, hereafter known as "Five"..but she just stared at me silently in my mind and slowly shook her head...holding Five's hand the whole time. Sounds crazy doesn't it? It feels crazy to write it..but it's happened. Just as the abuse happened. Fuck.
**ETA...Help!!! (Did I mention I'm technically challenged???) Last night when I checked the new blog layout/template, the widgets were on the right hand side of the page..now they are below the posts...how the hell do I fix that??? Anyone?? Anyone???? Bueller???????
I know it sucks but in my experince the most painfull, uncomfortable exhausting work you do in therapy is also the most healing.
ReplyDeleteHave you spoken to the keeper of secretss? Let her know and show her that you are not going to hurt the little one? If its been her job to protect the little one then it will take her a long time to trust anyone even you.
Maybe getting her to do art or other expressive stuff will help her.
Keeper is very silent..doesn't trust me yet to keep Little safe. I'm trying, with the help of my therapist, to break down the wall that Keeper has up, but it's just really hard.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate the idea about using art to express the bottled up feelings..that's a really good idea.
Thanks :)