Dear Younger Me: It's. Not. Your. Fault.
N othing is as painful as believing that you’re responsible for what someone did to you. And nothing is as condemning as the shame and guilt of the choices you made because of your assumed responsibility. If I knew then what I know now Would’ve not been hard to figure out What I would’ve changed if I had heard Dear younger me It’s not your fault You were never meant to carry this beyond the cross The first time I heard Dear Younger Me , I was overwhelmed with a sense of . . . truth. In three minutes and thirty-seven seconds, my life changed. I was abused multiple times in my childhood. As a little girl, I believed and accepted that I’d done something wrong. That I'd put out some weird energy that brought those people to me. I thought that maybe I was too nice or too cute. When I was older and it happened again, I believed that I was responsible for the cycle. I accepted that I owned the pain and I caused the suffering. Even worse, I thought that God thoug