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@brightwings

At the end of my healing, I had so many drawings and watercolors about different instances of abuse...
That art work helped me heal...however, I realized at some point I was still holding on to the abuse by keeping them.
So one Ceremony, I took the really bad ones, like specifically so many eyes watching all over in this one watercolor.
I brought them to Ceremony and burned them in Sacred Fire, thus purifying those memories and sending all that abuse to God to KEEP cuz I needed and wanted to let go of it all.
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Merry, Alumni Mentor | @merpreb | Apr 21, 2019

@brightwings- Good for you. I did almost the same thing. My mom was an artist and after she died I had a ton of her sculptures and paintings around in the house. This was during the time when my PTSD was the worst and I was having such a difficult time getting past her abuse. I guess I was still looking for her approval. I boxed up most of her things and stored them away. I sent all of her "paper" art- watercolors and sketches to my son. I have to tell you something. I'm a better painter than she was! lol!
My PTSD started to calm down a lot.
Sometimes we all have to get rid of the old before we can replace them with the good!

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