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lostmf · 5 months

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its3-15am · 1 year

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"How much strength does it take to hurt a little girl? How much strength does it take for the girl to get over it? Which one of them do you think is stronger?"

Fiona Apple on her rapist (Spin Magazine 1997)

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desirableoneday · 6 months

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I used to be afraid of death.

But when my mother's words bite into my flesh and I can feel her head shaking- tearing in with intent...

I wonder if she’d miss me.

#repost with credit #spilled thoughts #bpd #poetry #spilled poetry #alternative #shower thoughts #no contact #mommy issues #generational truama

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plainbadssoon · 1 year

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Far from the tree

#superjail #superjail!#superjail twins #techno twins #sj!#lord ozzal #angst #generational truama

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wolf-twins-inc · 1 year

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Haven't posted in awhile, so here's one if my recent shorts, Enjoy

#youtube #gacha club #gacha life #meme #trend #subscibe #like #siblings #banishment #royalty #past #generational truama

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sk3let0rz · 1 year

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If there is no god to condemn me, I will create one and he will have my face. If there is no hell waiting for me after death, I will construct one here and call it home. The true terror is not in a coming judgement day. The true terror is that there is no judgement day. You will be loved and happy and your sins will go unpunished. This is as it should be. Punishment is a man made construct so we don’t have to forgive ourselves.

#religious #religious deconstruction #generational truama #religious trauma #christianity #catholic

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how-the-feathers-have-fallen · 2 years

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We are the poisoned youth, we eat your lies and speak the truth.

It's this game we play, we run in circles. You laugh at us as we jump through hurdles.

We always scream, but you don't hear. You become toxic, the kind of toxic that we fear.

#poetry #poets on tumblr #spilled ink #trauma #generational truama #authority #problems with authority #icarus' feathers have found a use #icarus' poetry #pov: you ask me to lend you a pen | icarus sheds his wings/just for a moment/just for a thought/just for a feather/and then he falls

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void-hippie · 10 months

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Anyone else cope with trauma by making shitty album covers, hoping to use them someday?

#trauma #generational truama #truamadump #i hate my dad #could you tell?#i use ms paint #cant afford photoshop #if its good enough for andrew hussy its good enough for me

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dangerouslyfurrydragon · 1 year

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You deserve everything your heart desires.

#generationaltrauma #cyclebreaker #tgif #fridaymood #weekend #fridayvibes #lebron james #freedom #peace #inspiration #manifest #law of attraction #manifestation #breakinggenerationaltrama #cycle breaker #generational curses #generational truama #generationalhealing #Spotify

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lostmf · 7 months

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its3-15am · 1 year

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"My whole life has been spent trying to escape a house on fire and it seems that every door I go to is still can't find an exit"

"My father is my immediate reflection. Our mental states feed off of each other like parasites and he can't seem to realize his faults."

"How can I learn to live in the existence of myself? I can always survive alone with my sorrows but the agonizing weight of happiness is too much to bear alone"

-I suffocate with these weights on my back. I can no longer breathe and my father is pushing me further and further beneath the water screaming at me to swim. My mother is terrified and my sister turns the other way. I'm tired and my bed has become my grave that I rot in each night trying to escape from the past that haunts me. Trauma that taunts me. And the illness that never seems to stop agonizing me. Prozac. Lexapro. Lithium. Depakote. Zyprexa. Nothing works. Nothing fixes. Three doctors. Two shrinks and a morgue that plagues My head with dead bodies and corpses.

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desirableoneday · 2 months

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I genuinely want to know why- I feel like it’d be better if I killed myself.

So that we’d never have to fight- and I’d never give you a reason to be angry with me anymore.

#repost with credit #spilled thoughts #bpd #poetry #spilled poetry #shower thoughts #generational truama #loss #grief poem

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enigmatic-97 · 1 year

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STOP!!!

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socialjusticeslayermusings · 1 year

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#attachment issues #attachment styles #generational truama

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transporttoanotherplace · 2 years

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Book Review: Fav book of 2022?

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐✨4.5 stars

Content warning: child abuse (sexual, physical, and emotional), mentions of suicide, rape, incest, domestic and sexual assault, a POV from a character who committed sexual assault, and abortion.

Summary: Watkin's debut novel, Perish, follows the Turner family and the consequences of the matriarch, Helen Jean, who feels obligated by God to keep her child rather than try to abort the child again. Bear it or perish. Her decision has lasting consequences that ripple through subsequent generations.

The novel alternates between alternating points of view: Helen Jean; Julie B, the only one of Helen Jean's children who still live with her; Jan, plagued by the trauma she suffered as a child; Lydia, whose infertility has ruined her marriage; and Alex, now a cop who has a twisted, dark past that leaves him questioning if one can rid themselves of the darkness within them.

All must come together as Helen Jean's death is approaching and face the secrets they've all done their best to not vocalize. It's a painful journey to relive and with each truth revealed the heartbreak only intensifies.

Review (non-spoiler):

An absolutely beautiful and gut-wrenching novel. Watkin's novel masterfully explores generational trauma and the difficulties in breaking away from it. Each character is difficult to like as all their flaws are out in the open but you feel deeply for all of them and the trauma each character was forced to endure. It's a bold choice to include a perspective of a character who is a rapist but an appropriate one. Watkins never absolves her characters of their mistakes, and even demands that we as humans need to take responsibility for our part, but her added insight adds depth to the character that shows how we as humans can make our own monsters thinking we're going to do better than our parents only to repeat the cycle.

"She looks like someone who got everything wrong because she had been wronged."

The way this line shook me. My generational trauma is not as intense as the Turner family but I could read my feelings on each page. Understand the feeling of wanting to shake everyone and just ask them to talk. To beg others to let go of their pride and ego and work together. To want to run away and take my siblings away because it seems the only way out is to run. To feel disappointment, shame, and anguish at the realization you've repeated the mistakes of your parents. That you might have even done worse. Reading this inspired me to journal the night of and ask myself what of my own family's trauma?

This isn't an easy book to get through. Much of the content warning I mentioned is explicit and I urge people to be careful picking up this book. It's a worthwhile read but it can send a person down a dark hole very fast.

The pacing is quick thankfully and surprisingly considering much of the story is told through memories and the actual plot of the book is only about a few days' worths. Very character-driven novel. Prose is exceptional. At times I struggles with the dialect since I'm unfamiliar with southern dialect but I kept going and it became easy to understand. I hear the audiobook is excellent and has a full cast of characters. This could have been a 5 but aside from the first chapter, the beginning is actually a little tough to get through, and I had to convince myself to keep going. Also, trying to keep track of the characters and who's related to who can get confusing and there are some aspects to the story that I feel are glossed over. I know this isn't how it works out but I really wanted an epilogue for this book.

Amazing job! I know technically she's written two other books that weren't very popular but this is being hailed as her debut novel and I'm surprised because I'd expect this level of writing from a writer with several titles under her belt.

#perish latoya watkins #book review #books published in 2022 #black authors #latoya wakins #intergenerational trauma #generational truama #booklbr

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sinxerlyri · 8 months

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To hold your children back, simply because "what will people say" is the tragedy that no one will take accountability of but will forever be the victim..

_ Raconteur's Muse

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