Why can’t I ask for what I want? Being Vulnerable, Finding my Voice

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I’ll admit it — I was in a dark place.

Married twenty-seven years, my husband and I had retreated to the darkest recesses of our caves, ignoring each other, sitting separately, often going to bed hours after the other, and barely kissing good-bye or saying “I love you” during the day.

I’d had the crap knocked out of me that year, by employees who’d gathered together and decided to bring false claims against me, all the while trying to steal clients and ...

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Shadow Heart: A love story, being vulnerable with an open heart

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The story opens when Nicky Young, a woman coming of age, reflects on why relationships are so difficult for her. Shadow Heart is her story, created from the journals she’s kept all her life. We open as she reflects back to eight years old, as she and her sister are waiting for their father, an alcoholic, to prepare dinner for them.

EARLY LESSONS: NICKY YOUNG

I always prayed the same way at night: “Now I lay me down to sleep. I ...

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