In this issue I’m called to respond to an issue that is almost constantly appearing in my discussions with client’s and students and, by the way, one with which I am intimately familiar since I fully and totally embraced the consciousness of being a victim for many, many years.
This issue is of such great concern to me that I am devoting more than one page—speaking to it.
The bottom line with this issue is that you are either in Victim Consciousness- or - you are not. There is absolutely no in-between on this issue.
Embracing the Victim archetype means that everything happens “to you” and that nothing is ever your fault as everything is always based upon something that happened to you to “cause” you to function as you do.
Rather than go on and on about this issue I’m going to use myself as an example.
In my case, I was severely victimized from early childhood through my early adult years. I experienced sexual abuse as early as 3 years of age (the first of my memories and I absolutely know that it wasn’t
