When you have been a person in a compromised state through uncontrollable situations in your life or you have devoted your life to working with people who are suffering from those states, you learn very quickly that they actually know what people are doing to them when they are diminishing them, taking advantage, scoffing, judging, blaming, excusing their own conduct, responsibility etc.

God help you if they rise to their feet again. Which I have! I am not at all revengeful, I know some people do get that way. But I am surely stronger, wiser and more independent which allows me to Say what I need to Say, Go where I need to Go, and Do what I need to Do in a much freer and open way.

Lori Ellis~McKinney (2018)