My Heart to Your Heart
You deserve respect and you deserve to be loved for just who you are....
Claim these things for yourself!
Heart 2 Heart is a great big warm hug filled with hope from my heart to your heart. I understand how you feel because I lived it... just as so very many others have and so very many still are. Please believe me... you are not the only one.
This site will be a touchstone to reality, enabling you to begin to make some sense of what has happened to you. It will help your wounded spirit to realize that the abuse is not your fault... that you have not imagined it... and that you do not deserve it.
It will help you to feel your need to heal and become whole again. You have very likely been fractured into pieces by spiteful, horrible treatment. This is what abuse has done to you and does to all living creatures with feelings... it is a tool of destruction.
It is my sincere wish for you that these pages will serve to further encourage your inner strength, which you already have plenty of. You will regain your sense of self-worth and reclaim your life. You will choose to live healthy and happy... without oppression or fear... as we are all intended to live.
To some of you, this may seem impossible or overwhelming right now. I ask that you give yourself a pat on the back and realize that you already have survived and you will make it. Please know that you don't have to do this all by yourself. Abuse aware family members, trusted friends, abused women's support groups, police victim services, crisis centers, abuse hotlines, councellors and therapists can and do offer tremendous support.
When I desperately needed help, I knocked on the door of every appropriate resource I found. I have thanked the powers that be many times for enabling my contact with sensitive, knowledgeable people. I have thanked these people personally, and I now share their gift to me with you, through this website.
I hope with all my heart that you will seek out, and find, similar people. Welcome them into your life and accept their support. Talk with them, share your feelings and your experiences... reach out to them as you enable yourself to understand and begin healing.
You have been alone and hurt for long enough. It's time for you to gather up your spirit and rejoin the world... time for you to begin loving and respecting yourself again. Starting right now, reclaim your birthright to live abuse free... to live a joyful, safe and fulfilling life... to be truly and honestly loved for who you are... to fly and become all that you can be.
May the steps you take today be those upon your footpath of self-honour,
NOTE: Heart 2 Heart is dedicated to my Aunt Reta who, at the age of 74, had both the courage and the strength
to leave a 25 year abusive marriage. She became my inspiration, for if she could do it... so could I.
She lived happy, loved and peaceful for 4 years... passing at the age of 78.
Thank you Aunt Reta. I love you and miss you.
