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Victims and True Feelings

Victims and True Feelings What is the difference between being a victim and feeling like a victim?   One is identifying as a victim and making decisions from that base as a way of life. The other is going into the wounds of whatever happened to you where you were a victim, feeling those feelings, exploring them, processing them and allowing them to be released, taken from you all as a part of the journey of healing. What healing looks like: Waking Up, coming out of denial. You finally admit you were hurt, abused, abandoned, raped, lied to, robbed, beaten up and that yes, it hurt. Yes there was terrible fear and a loss of self, a loss of faith, depression, anxiety, and so much more. This stage is shocking and hurts. Your ego is demolished as you finally “cave into” the realizations and emotions that emerge as you face the truth about what happened to you instead of minimizing it, explaining it away, or muscling through it. Grieving, raging and learning You will inevi

The Art of Teaching

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The study of language (linguistics) reflects the culture, the mindset and priorities of the people. How a people perceive life, their priorities, the flow of time, concepts of love, and spirituality can be discovered by looking at the form and content of a people’s language. The USA is filled with diversity and even though the main language is English, cultural factors influence the use and understanding of language and patterns of speaking and learning.   In mainstream America the primary use of language is based on white Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) the culture of the primary invaders of America and what can also be referred to as the “middle-class” economic group. (Remember this is a very short article so this is the readers’ digest version of   some very profound socio-economic knowledge base).   Other ethnicities living in the USA that have moved into the lifestyle of the middle class (and above) did so by   learning to adopt and use the mainstream language patterning in orde