How My Anger Led Me to Forgiveness and Peace
âGenuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.â ~Alice Duer Miller
As an adult survivor of childhood sexual abuse at the hands of a relative, I had become accustomed to keeping secrets. Silence, I was taught, was a good thing. It protected people that I loved.
So for over a decade, I carried the dark and overbearing weight of my past in secrecy and in silence, believing I was the only one in the world whoâd ever experienced such abuseâuntil I learned from a college workshop that one in four women and one in five men fall …