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Five steps to healing

It takes more than one attempt to leave an abuser.  It usually takes five to eight separations for real recovery to begin, for a woman to take her life back.  There are also different stages of recovery, different steps to healing.  I’m linking those healing steps to the times we try to leave. Rather than …

December 31, 2010 – 3:53 pm | By Karin L Burke | Posted in Stronger at the Broken Places - healing from abusive relationships | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Return: Yoga for Trauma Survivors pt 2

I was asleep for  17 years.  I walked, spoke, I bathed like other human beings, but there was a part of me heavy and closed and unaware.  I fed myself booze and pills.  I drove cars.  I stood thigh deep in the Atlantic in February until I couldn’t feel my toes.  I bled like other …

December 18, 2010 – 2:14 am | By Karin L Burke | Posted in Stronger at the Broken Places - healing from abusive relationships, Yoga and Meditation | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)