Comments on: Love Is All There Is!

By: Hazel Wilkinson

Hazel Wilkinson — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 00:45:49 +0000

What a reflection! Maybe one day your mother will stop the denial and open up to the healing. Your story is a parallel path that I have walked with my mother. Many, many times she shut down and attempted to justify her rage. Someday I will complete the journey for us through my daughter and I. Thanks for sharing.

By: Cindi Brogan

Cindi Brogan — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:25:29 +0000

Beautiful post Ruth….this brought back memories of my first visit with you…and you taught me that kind of pure mother love(which I had never known). I learned from you, and my baby benefited from my knowing about head rubs! Even now, at 22, she climbs in bed with me when she comes to visit and we connect that way.
You are such a gift to all of us whose lives you have touched.
I’m Loving you!

By: Conga Playmate

Conga Playmate — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:30:45 +0000

A love that propels us, warms, educates and secures us. What if the area where love does the most for us is not experienced? Do we find ourselves creating delusional love, even from our parents? Because parents are not authorized a free pass for their misdeeds towards their children, let’s not confuse our need for genuine love instead of the fly by night painful methods some of us cling to.

By: Patricia A. Clemens Terry

Patricia A. Clemens Terry — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:07:05 +0000

Thank you for this website…………..although I loss my mom early………and I still experience profound sadness…and rage………….there was still love………..thank you for your sweet, sweet story.

By: marion jimos

marion jimos — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:36:53 +0000

…beautiful Ruth, thank you.

By: Kathryn Yockey

Kathryn Yockey — Sat, 02 May 2009 05:31:50 +0000

I never got the opportunity to talk to my mother later in life after I had dealt with my childhood issues, but did get to talk to my dad. There is such a healing that takes place when you get that opportunity. Thanks for sharing your story.

By: dorene flournoy

dorene flournoy — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:52:01 +0000

By: Ana Holub

Ana Holub — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:13:02 +0000

Thanks for the story, Ruth. What a blessing that you have a mother who loves you, and when you were ready, could listen to your truth in her own way. Your courage and healing lightens the world for all of us….

By: Aubrey Pettaway

Aubrey Pettaway — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:35:49 +0000

So, you never said you don’t sew. Maybe now that you are in NC, you can learn to quilt. You know, Ruth, it pays to have some skills! Thanks for this!

By: Susan Fitzpatrick

Susan Fitzpatrick — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:16:52 +0000

I’m learning to be an adult who speaks her own truth to the people I love now. Sort of like getting my “learner’s permit” in deeper relationships. It works. Thank you so much for giving me a place to say that. I don’t have to make sense, the way I thought I did when I talked to parents (or myself!)