I used to teach at an abused children's home. I told the kids, "You all have a manure pile of memories. Nothing you can do about that. Now you can drown in the stink or turn it into compost and grow a garden. I wouldn't't be as good a teacher to you if I didn't know what you're going through. That way, I make my memories do good instead of letting them eat me. I'm like Herbie from Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer. I pulled my Bumble's teeth. He's still big and scary but he can't bite me anymore.

Rebecca O'Donnell

Tags: hope memoir child-abuse incest



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Whenever Insecurity whispers In your ear, telling you how much you suck, tell it to shut the hell up. Then keep going forward anyway.

Rebecca O'Donnell

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Become your own soulmate. Then you'll always have someone watching your back, and you'll always have someone who loves you.

Rebecca O'Donnell

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Have you ever gotten to a point where you looked at your own life, thought "Fu** this," and reached for the economy-sized Valium? Ah, suicide. So dark and seductive.

Rebecca O'Donnell

Tags: hope addiction suicide memoir abuse



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We're nobody's dirty little secret.

Rebecca O'Donnell

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You have a manure pile of memories. Nothing you can do about that. Now, you can drown in the stink, or turn it into compost and grow a garden.

Rebecca O'Donnell

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Six months later, I was poor, pregnant, and married to a man who read Dogfu**er magazine.

Rebecca O'Donnell


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Empathy is walking a mile in somebody else's moccasins. Sympathy is being sorry their feet hurt.

Rebecca O'Donnell


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It's like ping pong with a ball made out of acid and fire. That's what's going on inside our screwed up heads.

Rebecca O'Donnell


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It's not your fault you had an unwanted dick in you.

Rebecca O'Donnell

Tags: addiction rape incest domestic-violence



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