Where is the Great and Powerful “OZ?”

As children, who did not lay on their belly, elbows on carpet, propping their head up by their chin in awe of the, “Wizard of Oz?” We dreamed of our own courage, our heart and finding a brain. Fear of being lost, not finding our way home, and wondering, does a wizard actually exist? How well written, how astute, how wonderful to know that the power that each of us had was within us all along.

When we are abused, or we have gone through life trauma as a child or an adult we become shattered. We feel we are to blame, that we were, stupid, naive, gullible, and foolish. We are afraid this will happen again, become hyper-vigilant, even paranoid of others. Anger is directed at the manipulation of the perpetrator as well as ourselves. All perpetrators whether they are sexually abusing someone, manipulating a wife for their own selfish gain, or hurting a child by not spending the time, are clearly at fault. We on the other hand, need to become wiser, and realize that the best of the best get fooled, conned, and experience hurt. What we must know at some point in order to become healthy, which I will define by inner strength, finding our heart, brain and courage is that this health was always there.

Just as in the movie we all have the ability before the trauma, and we have it after the trauma. So where did it go? Did it ever leave us? Why can we not call upon it, summon it if you will in time of crisis. You can, and you have! When you speak up for yourself, when you realize you will not allow others to take advantage of you, you are calling upon your courage and you inner strength to kick your own wicked witch right square in the butt. Fear immobilizes us, it rusts us like the tin man, preventing us from moving, like the lion we may show a facade until someone slaps us on the nose calling our bluff, or we may act and feel confused like the scarecrow. Fear immobilizes us, and when the human condition is unfortunately just right and our life path leads us right smack dab into a not so nice, sociopthic, uncaring human we realistically get hurt and freeze up.

We had the power in us all along, we just have not practiced how to use it. Do you see adults getting sexually abused? No! Adults have experience, they will not be conned by a sexual perpetrator. Women who are in their first one or two relationships, are frequently conned. Why? They have little experience dealing with sociopathic, manipulating, un-caring jerks. We hear statements like, ” I thought he cared?” ” I thought he loved me? There is a grooming phase in early relationships just like a sexual perpetrator. They instill trust, and then after awhile they slowly show their true colors. Sadly they are not the colors of a rainbow, but the colors of a snake pit, dark black with a sense of no escape.

We all have the ability to find our home, find our heart, find our courage, and find our brains. We had them all along. We do not trust others but more importantly we DO NOT TRUST OURSELVES. When we begin to trust our decision, when we begin to be more aware that flying monkeys do exist, and we can evade them, we will get better. A simple element of H2O will melt a witch. Water the gift of life, the purification of a baby at Baptism, the sustenance of our very being caused death to the witch. It is that simple in real life. We need to drown the perpetrator, the perpetrator’s family, the manipulating spouse or boyfriend or girlfriend with the gift of truth and honesty. They will melt, they will eventually go away. Once they are aware we are wise to their sadistic selfish ways they will move on. There is no more thrill for them, no more conquest, off they go to another victim.

The great and powerful wizard of oz is alive and well. It has been inside of all of us all along. Yes, it may take some time to find it, but I promise you it is there. Summon up the wizard, throw some truth in the air of  your current situation, watch the other squirm, get defensive, that is all you need to walk the yellow brick road. Go see the wizard, go look directly in the mirror. Get healthy !!

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