07 August 2005
	Help for Adult Victims Of Child Abuse. A non-profit making organisation based in the UK dedicated to provide help, support and information to any adult who is suffering from past childhood abuse.

What's "Wrong" With You

Admitting your weaknesses is a powerful way to begin
improving them. We usually try to hide things about ourselves we feel are
weak or bad. Some of the things you have thought, felt or done may make you
feel ashamed.

For the sake of positive change, let's take "bad," "wrong"
and "shame" out of it. These negatives or weaknesses are the challenges in
your life. This is where the greatest growth and change can take place. You
will discover you are not locked into being these ways as "I am" becomes "I
used to be."

You may have been trying to change things about yourself
that you don't like. It is common for people to get down on themselves about
things they want to change, as if self-hate would really work. It is time to
let go of your bad feelings about yourself. Everything you have done,
whether good or bad, you have done for a reason. Now you can begin to
understand why you do the things you do. You have a choice about how to
better live your life. Now is the time to release your guilt and your shame.

The first step toward really changing is accepting yourself
the way you are. The next step is to become clear about your problems by
telling the truth about them

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