Anastasia Higginbotham's latest book, You Ruined It, tackles familial incest and is by turns personally revealing, reassuring and full of practical insight into handling abuse. Her conversation with eleanorjbader1:
Anastasia Higginbotham:
I want readers to understand that childhood sexual abuse, even the subtle and insidious kind, has a lifelong impact. I want kids to know it is not their responsibility to stop or prevent it. It is the responsibility of the ones violating them to not do it. I also mean to expose the fact that the crisis of disclosure—telling someone—may be followed by more and worse crises.
that has the line: “The blade is so sharp—It cuts things together—not apart.” That’s what I was going for with the mom, Billie and Dawn. Billie, though, wants to make sure that their cousin never does this to anyone else and expresses the part of me that says, ‘let’s get him’ even though I know that this will not improve anything. Still, Billie is hurt by being unable to protect Dawn. Billie’s pain is very real to me.
After this exchange, what had been a knot of pain and fear in me dissolved. Forgiveness was easy. We’ve been in regular contact ever since. You can unstick trauma if there is a ‘now,’ an honest present, you can step into.You also took self-defense classes, something Dawn’s mom chooses to do, as well.including myself. I began taking classes in 2000, when I was 29, at
Learning how to bring yourself back to your body takes practice, but it is something that Dawn and the rest of us can learn to do.
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