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I’ve had to do this in my own life; revisit my childhood, confront memories I had forgotten, and piece together moments that finally helped me understand why I responded to life the way I did. It wasn’t easy, but it was necessary.
This is what real self-care looks like. Not spa days or surface-level positivity, but courageous inner work that transforms you from the inside out. And it’s not just about you. Unhealed childhood trauma doesn’t stop with us, it can seep into how we parent, how we love, how we live. It can affect our children, and even our children’s children. This is called Intergenerational trauma. So, when you commit to healing, you’re not only doing it for yourself, but you’re also breaking cycles for those who come after you. That is powerful. That is Purpose. That is healing. (ANT)
Aretha Taylor is living proof that no matter how dark your beginning is, it can still lead to a powerful new chapter. Through her work, voice, and faith, she continues to be a beacon of hope for both women and men everywhere searching for their own New Beginning.
I didn’t have much of a childhood. I wasn’t allowed to have friends, or to go outside and play with the neighborhood kids. I wasn’t allowed to be a kid. That was a very dark time for me. The beatings, the accusations, the cursings, the constant putting down and name calling. I never felt good enough that I could please her. During that time, I was also being sexually abused by her common-law husband. I felt very alone, because I didn’t have anyone to confide in.
BestSeller
The Book on Forgiveness
For you to have a healthy mind, you must first be emotionally healthy. Your emotions affect you mentally. We must be willing to go to the root cause of the pain, face it and deal with it. We must be willing to go to the source of the pain and that’s one of the main reasons why I needed to go back to my mom’s, because she was the root cause of my pain going all the way back to the womb, and I needed to face her.
I needed to have conversations with her that were hard and painful. I needed to understand her, and to know what some of the things were that she had endured, because then I could understand ME. This was generational, and I needed it to stop with me and not pass it onto my daughter. I saw that mental illness was in my family by speaking with family members. Some were struggling with depression, some had bipolar disorder, and there were some who had anger and rage, and that was my struggle, so I needed to find out where that was coming from.
