An acknowledgment of the role my mom has played in my life and in my healing

This is to acknowledge how much I owe my mom.

Thank you mom for carrying me in your womb and giving birth to me. Thank you for all the things that you did that are a normal part of being a mother. But a special thanks for all you did beyond that.

Thank you for all the times you put yourself between me and that brute who is your husband and my dad. Thank you for all the beatings you suffered from him because you would not stand aside and let him do violence to me. Thank you for every blow you took that would have been mine. I often wonder if I would even be alive now if you had not taken those blows for me.

Thank you that through it all you remained positive and never let his evil destroy the good in your soul. Thank you for being a beacon of light for me in the darkness that he cast over our lives. Without that positive example to follow I would not have known how to get through everything but the light you shone guided my way.

Thank you for trying to get me out when dad had me taken to that cruel wilderness program. It’s not your fault that they would not release me. It was the example you gave me that helped me find the strength to remain positive and get through those twelve terrible weeks and the knowledge that at the end of it all I would see you again.

Thank you for getting both of us away from dad. Thank you for bringing to live in the UK so that dad can’t have me forcibly taken away again. Thank you for the wonderful new life I now have and would never have dared hope for with dad. Thank you for finding me a good therapist to help me overcome the trauma that the fake therapy of the wilderness program caused me. 

Thank you for everything mom. I love you so much.