Different Voices - Stories of Covid -19 Lockdown
This is a collaborative anthology featuring a chapter written by Debra Hillard.
We all remember the harrowing days, months and years of Covid! Some of us have stories to tell and this book highlights those triumphant and sometimes emotional tales of our experiences. I certainly have many of my own.
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"In the early days of my awakening, I often heard the term "self-love." At the time, given my upbringing and the trauma I carried, it felt irrelevant—almost trivial. My focus wasn’t on love; it was on survival. Loving myself was never part of the plan. Surviving others was.
Looking at my history, it’s easy to understand why. I was raised in a family where persecution ran in our DNA, woven into the very fabric of our lives. When you’re under attack from every angle, love doesn’t seem to have a place. And when the overwhelming message is that you are unlovable, the idea of loving yourself feels like an impossible leap. Not only impossible, but unattainable. I was continually told that there was nothing worth loving about me, that I was a bad seed and should never have been born. I was told that my life was a burden to others and given the imprint of “unworthy” to carry for the rest of my life. Proving that wrong, paying for my supposed sins, dictated all of my choices for decades. But there was no way to prove this false, because nothing I could do would ever be enough. "