Former First Lady, #LauraBush article is LINKED IN BIO • • Since getting treatment over the last year for PTSD, it has been able to be traced to a handful (or two pages) of core memories, that throughout my life would become reactionary spores to subsequent events. One of those core memories was when I was 7. We lived in an apartment in a bad part of town, bad enough our neighbor was supposedly shot on their porch. One night, my 25 year old mom and my stepdad wanted to go out so they left me alone, and just told me to not open the door. I begged them not to go. I cried, and they left. I crawled under my desk, scared and alone, shook, screamed and cried and prayed for what seemed like an eternity-and maybe they were gone about 4 hours. I am a grown adult who still felt the effects of that on an unconscious level my whole life. It poked around somewhere, and transmuted, disguised itself very well, like Artificial Intelligence, to remind me how to react and choose, presenting itself in its own sneaky way. I will tell you that because of #EMDR, this is not the case anymore 🙏🏽however seeing these images, I have a visceral nauseating understanding as to what this does to a child • • ⬅️NOW ➡️, imagine a child, thousands, being separated and imprisoned at the border from their parents. Parents who probably fled from danger. This is not right. You don’t do this. WE DONT DO THIS. Think of the long term effects it will have on these children. They were ASKING for help. Asylum seekers have had their children taken away some with violent force, or tricked that they were just gonna bathe the kids - and not even allowed to console or hug them or they will be arrested. Treated like animals. It is clearly the choice of this president to do this and he could stop it at any time. It’s terrifying. I am so angry. I am so angry that there are people who think this is OK. This is going to go nowhere good. #WhereAreTheChildren
