Sometimes the words cut deep to your soul. You hear them on the street, in your house, in your very own mind. They are the words both spoken and unspoken that always seem to justify the way others treat you so poorly and the reason you are so comfortable hurting yourself.
These words that have been seared into your brain for as long as you can remember. How your teachers called you dumb, the doctors called you crazy and your sister called you a whore.
It is the negative words that are as much a part of you as your own DNA. It is the way someone comments on the clothes that you are wearing or a decision you have made, in that tone of voice, the one that makes it obvious they do not approve.
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