“He said … A man’s home is his castleIt always has been and so it remains…But he holds the keys in a fist of rageHis home is his castleAnd mine is a cage.”
The recent video posted on YouTube by 23-year-old Hillary Adams shows that her father, Judge William Adams, beat her with a belt and admonished her with explicit language has, like it or not, taken all who viewed it behind closed doors, and taken all beyond hearing the refrain from Faith Hill’s song, out of the darkness and into …

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      “I want to live where soul meets body and let the sun wrap its arms around me, and bathe my skin in water cool and cleansing, and feel what it’s like to be new.”—Death Cab for Cutie
Life after abuse is possible. Though it has been said that time heals all wounds, that has not been my experience. However accepting myself along with the vicissitudes that emerge from living life completely helps me to feel …