Laura G. Owens, Author at Tiny Buddha

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Laura G. Owens is a Florida-based writer obsessed with human behavior. Hr focus is social commentary and personal essays with stark honesty. She has fifteen years of experience writing about mind and body natural health. Blog: Human Nature Huffington Post

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Sometimes Not Forgiving Is a Powerful Step Toward Healing

By Laura G. Owens

“You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it.” ~Maya Angelou

My mother left when I was five. Dad told me that for a little while I stopped talking, which is hard to imagine because now I never shut up.

Apparently, I disappeared into myself. The doctors called it selective …