A testimony by Debra Dieppa, Wyoming

There are voices inside my head that besiege me with chatter and confuse me. often their talk keeps me away from underlying feelings of pain. These voices began in my childhood, after or during incest-related experiences. They blitzed my mind so that I would not have to see clearly or experience the incest so starkly.

I will not have peace of mind unless I let these voices go. I have spent much of my life trying to decipher all that they say, feeling I could gain control by figuring them out. Yet did my figuring get me anywhere beyond the feeling that I was scrambling in a cage? Did I ever find out all I needed to know.

The solution often lies in having the humility to turn elsewhere for an answer. this might means asking for and receiving the guidance of another person or making conscious contact with my higher power. I no longer need to do it all alone.