All it takes is one small opening, and one small opportunity. Just underneath the straw in my cell I found a hatch door. My means of escape was always available to me. I just hadn’t seen it yet. My captors are busy playing their games, planning their next move,...
I am beautiful. I am free. I am wise. I am Sophia. How did I get here? How did I come to this? Why am I in these chains? Why am I locked in a dark cellar surrounded by things that degrade and dehumanise me? Especially words. Words that are meant to shame, subdue and...
I’m always waiting. Looking out the window for something to show is my pastime. Like through a dark glass. The thing is… I never really know what I’m looking for. All I know is that I want to experience my freedom. The freedom that beats in my chest wants to feel the...
I look out over the hills. Where is my help going to come from? Me. I remember when I was a child. In my captivity, these memories fill my dreams. They make me wonder where my wonder went. Why do I see myself alone in the woods? Why am I all alone standing on the brow...
When you read the story of Sophia in these blog posts, and see the drawings, you are seeing not only the journey of a young woman courageously struggling to achieve her own spiritual independence and gain her own freedom. You are also reading my story. This is about...
This is a picture of a couple of watercolor paintings I did some time ago. I miss it. Let me tell you a story. Making art was an important part of my healing and reconstruction process. I didn't know this at the beginning of my deconstruction. It didn't know this...
This is a really good article about emotional boundaries for work. But they can apply to family, friends, and church as well. It even applies to TLS! Here's a chart: Read the entire article: CLICK HERE
This is a very simple exercise that I find myself doing every once in a while. It's become a kind of marker of where I am compared to where I've been and where I may be going. Here it is: What is one thing you believed 5 years ago that you now no longer believe?...
I find it as difficult to believe that the origins of life and the universe came about via the understandings of a reductionist/materialist pov as I do that there must be one specific notion of deity of some kind to which all owe their existence and ultimate provision...
Here's an exercise that you might find helpful. One of the things we all confront when we decide to walk our own path, forge our own trail, or live our own lives, is criticism from others. Sometimes it is intentionally mean to hurt us. But other times it is just the...
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