Further Readings of Trauma and Recovery
Feb. 20th, 2021 10:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
writerkitThe copy of Trauma and Recovery I have is my mother's copy. She was apparently the sort of person who did a lot of marking up her professional reading, as it's covered in highlighter and some marginal notes. Usually the marginal notes are just summations of the text. Sometimes she makes extrapolations; very occasionally she'll ask a question.
And then there's this passage: "Folk wisdom recognizes that to forgive is divine. And even divine forgiveness, in most religious systems, is not unconditional. True forgiveness cannot be granted until the perpetrator has sought and earned it through confession, repentance, and restitution."
Beside this she has made a small vertical mark to indicate what the note is referring to, and then just written "No."
I'm just like "Your Catholic upbringing is showing."
(For all she ran away from it at the first opportunity-- including throwing a fit and refusing to let me be baptized like her mother wanted--she kept a lot of the outlooks, and did not seem to realize this about herself. I somehow managed to come out more like the Jewish side of the family than the Christian side; note that my current round of finding myself is heavily focused on connecting with my Judaism.)
And then there's this passage: "Folk wisdom recognizes that to forgive is divine. And even divine forgiveness, in most religious systems, is not unconditional. True forgiveness cannot be granted until the perpetrator has sought and earned it through confession, repentance, and restitution."
Beside this she has made a small vertical mark to indicate what the note is referring to, and then just written "No."
I'm just like "Your Catholic upbringing is showing."
(For all she ran away from it at the first opportunity-- including throwing a fit and refusing to let me be baptized like her mother wanted--she kept a lot of the outlooks, and did not seem to realize this about herself. I somehow managed to come out more like the Jewish side of the family than the Christian side; note that my current round of finding myself is heavily focused on connecting with my Judaism.)
