Kelly Roberson Counseling & Wellness, PLLC

Someone needed to hear this today.

Your silence was never meant to be the foundation someone else's reputation is built on. And yet, so many women in destructive or unhealthy marriages have been conditioned to believe that keeping quiet is the godly thing to do.

It is not.

Speaking truth is not betrayal. It is not bitterness. It is not unbiblical. In fact, Ephesians 5:11 calls us to expose what is done in darkness, not protect it.

You are allowed to tell the truth about your life. You are allowed to stop carrying what was never yours to carry.

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📊Are you the queen or king of multitasking? Read this… 

💭Allow yourself to know what you know. An excerpt from a paper I wrote on trauma:

An individual’s need to push trauma away as to not remember the distressful event is a natural defense behavior known as the defense cascade and includes fight, flight, freeze, and faint (Kozlowska, Walker, McLean, & Carrive, 2015). Trauma embedded over time will only lead to increased problems and emotional pain. Renowned trauma researcher Bessel Van der Kolk (2014) writes, “As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself. The critical issue is allowing yourself to know what you know. That takes an enormous amount of courage” (p. 233).