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Linda Blackmer
  • Jun 17, 2018
  • 5 min

Trauma Survivor Speaks out on the Outrageous Trauma Inflicted on People Who Need Compassion

In our current political climate, there is much to be disappointed about and much more to be disgusted over. The latest political outrage is knowing our government is removing children from their parents as they flee unimaginable horrors from their country of origin. These are people who want to make a better life for themselves and their children. Gangs, wars, drugs and human trafficking are social conditions any of us would want to flee and find a safe passage to another co
Linda Blackmer
  • Feb 25, 2018
  • 3 min

Vulnerability and Resilience

My book My Father’s Eyes: A Story of Stolen Lives is ready to be released and inside I feel a resistance to exposing my story to the world. Many reasons come to mind for the resistance. One is it is an unusual and sad story. From experience, I have felt when I shared my story with others I get a sense of rejection. That somehow the loneliness and sadness I feel inside will rub off on them, so to keep themselves safe, they move away. This may not be true. It could be a project
Linda Blackmer
  • Dec 29, 2017
  • 3 min

Family Secrets

Every family has secrets. I like the story John Bradshaw shared in his book, “Family Secrets”. He would steal dimes from his father, going on a binge buying candy. When his father questioned why his dimes were missing, he did not own up to his behavior. The loss of the dimes remained a secret. From this experience, he had to live with the shame and guilt of not being honest with his family. This happens! As children, we test the limits. I remember when my daughter stole mon
Linda Blackmer
  • Dec 29, 2017
  • 2 min

Write Your Story

Do you feel at times you need to talk to someone, and when you do, you feel unheard and worse before you opened up? Does your story continue to follow you, wanting and needing expression? When you can’t find that trusted other, do you sink into a depression with uncontrollable emotions coursing through your body? Is there a family secret, a loss, a bizarreness in your family you know is not right? If any of these rings true for you, then I say—write your story. I have wanted