Saturday October 26, 2024 The Peer Support Team had an event we hosted at Recreation for Domestic Violence. There were several learning stations. Those learning stations were: Boundaries, Laws of Boundaries, Co-dependent vs Interdependent, Self-Esteem, Abusive, and the Spectrum of Relationships. I was given the opportunity of running the spectrum of relationships table.
There were several different groups of ladies that came to my area where I taught the difference between healthy, unhealthy, and abusive relationships. I spoke of the gray areas of these different relationships. Someone that has healthy relationship habits can stay with someone who is unhealthy or abusive and it has the power to change your life. Just because a relationship is unhealthy, that don’t make it abusive, but all abusive relationships start out as unhealthy. An unhealthy and abusive relationship only requires one person to have the traits, but a healthy relationship always takes two people to work out. You can always learn healthy relationship habits.
Toward the end of my sessions I posed a series of questions to the group to allow them to share or reflect on.
~What did the parental relationships in your life look like growing up?
~Did this affect what you were willing to deal with in you own relationships as an adult?
~When did you become comfortable staying in an unhealthy or abusive situation?
~Were drugs and alcohol a factor?
I made sure that the ones that came to my circle that now was the time to become the woman they were meant to be. This time in prison is an opportunity to learn good and healthy habits so you can live to your full potential.
