When do you have enough recovery to write a book?
And maybe help someone else?
This is the final of a three-part interview of me by Dr. Donna. It starts 30 second into the recording. There remains a trigger warning for intense discussions of childhood abuse.
Alle: Because I was doing so much of my healing work in the late 1980s and early 90s, there was no Me,Too movement. There was no believing you if you took your perpetrator to court. You had to have empirical evidence of crimes that happened 15 years ago when you were five. You were not going to bring these people to justice. So I just gave up on that as any way of fulfilling my recovery.
I turned inward with it. ‘“This is going to be something I do for myself.” And it completely escaped my attention that child abuse is a crime. It is a crime to hurt people and children are people.
And now, with the way the Me, Too movement has affected the United States, people are going to jail for these crimes. So now that I’ve written the book that I wanted to write, with no agenda, now that the story exists as a book, I would love to partner with a non-profit. If there is anything I can do now, to be a part of that, I would.
