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March 4, 2018 By Janneke

Survivor Psalm

Survivor Psalm
By Frank Ochbery, M.D.

Everyone is Figthting a Battle

I have been victimized.
I was in a fight that was
not a fair fight.

I did not ask for the fight. I lost.
There is no shame in losing suchFS Quote ugly defeat
Fights, only in winning.
I have reached the stage of
Survivor and am no longer a
slave of victim status.
I look back with sadness
rather than hate.
I look forward with hope
rather than despair.
I may never forget, but I need not
constantly remember.
I was a victim.
I am a survivor.

THANK YOU DR. OCHENBERRY, for your amazing work with veterans. And thank you that this holds equally true for all civlian survivors of trauma, whether from WWII civilian concentration camps, or recent trauma and loss.

 

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Following Shadows is inspired by my own story. As a survivor of an international childhood with parents who were World War II survivors, I know the generational after-effects of starvation and slave labor in Japanese concentration camps for my father, and the terror of Nazi occupation for my mother. I know the challenges of struggling to feel at home across three countries: The Netherlands, Iran and America.

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