Self-Love, Successful Healing & DVAM

Sensitive Content: This episode contains personal experiences and poetry related to domestic violence that may be disturbing, upsetting or triggering. Take care of yourself.

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM). Beyond this month, let's keep that spotlight shining brightly to end this crime and support healing and transformative justice for victims and survivors, wherever they are in their experience. Stay cultivating healthy relationships with ourselves, with our families and friends, and in our circles and communities all the time!

In this episode, I share some of my personal experience with DV and my continuing journey to self-love and healing successfully. Getting the help we need to deal with our experiences, learning who we are and loving in healthy ways are forms of self-care, and self-care is community care.

Our heart's capacity for love is ever-expanding, unlimited, and self-love is at the center of  building a healthy outlook and creating well-being. Allow your heart space to be filled with healthy love for yourself and there will be enough overflow to give and receive in your relationships with others.

In this episode, you are getting some treats! I'm sharing a very special poem,
The Typical Controller Lost Control Today, by the gifted poet, Flavia Logie, Esq.,  and the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence's Universal Prayer, which I read and promote annually for DVAM.  Visit VAWnet.org to get printable copies in a number of languages. 

I honor the strength and courage of victims and survivors of DV. I believe that everyone knows at least one person who has been involved in an abusive intimate relationship or experienced family violence. Everyone deserves healthy relationships, building on self-love and self-awareness, the importance of boundaries and knowing that love shouldn't hurt. Help is available, wherever you are, if you're involved in a toxic or unhealthy relationship or know someone who might be: 

• Contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline for resources wherever you are in the U.S., at 800.799.7233 or text START to 88788
• In the U.S. Virgin Islands, on St. Croix, contact the Women's Coalition of St. Croix, or the Family Resource Center for St. Thomas, St. John or Water Island, for 24-hour crisis intervention via their hotlines: call WCSC at 340.773.9272 , or FRCUSVI at 340.776.7867. In an emergency, please dial 911. 

Help is always available when you need it. Be kind to yourself and stay safe.

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Thank you for joining me for some sister love!

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Thanks again. Blessings.

Chapters

• 0:07 Siser Chat Intro
• 0:57 Sensitive Content - My Childhood DV Experience
• 2:25 What is Domestic Violence?
• 4:01 Sensitive Content - DV & Healing As An Adult
• 6:40 Flavia Logie's "The Typical Controller Lost Control Today"
• 9:29 Help Is Available
• 11:02 The "Universal Prayer" Reading
• 16:15 This Ep's "Whole Word"
• 16:39 This Ep's Declaration
• 17:57 Sister Chat Outro