Reaching Out for Compassion

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Reaching Out for Compassion

<p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tara-brach/reaching-out-for-compassi_b_5208438.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/c8df8dn9TJj8gkmkVYfT7Q--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3B4b2ZmPTUwO3B5b2ZmPTA7cT03NTt3PTEzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Huffington%20Post/Reaching_Out_for_Compassion-11c634652258a872827f02ab6f0f5488" width="130" height="86" alt="Reaching Out for Compassion" align="left" title="Reaching Out for Compassion" border="0" /></a>At a weekend workshop I led, one of the participants, Marian, shared her story about the shame and guilt that had tortured her. Marian's daughter Christy, in recovery for alcoholism, had asked her mother to join her in therapy. As their sessions unfolded, Christy revealed that she'd been sexually abused throughout her teen years by her stepfather, Marian's second husband. The words and revelations Marian heard that day pierced her heart. &quot;You just slept through my whole adolescence!&quot; her daughter had shouted. &quot;I was being violated and had nowhere to turn! No one was there to take care of me!&quot;</p><br clear="all"/>

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