You Matter

 You Matter

Black lives

Latino lives

Asian lives

Pacific Islander lives

Uyghur lives

Moslem lives

Jewish lives

Hindu lives

Buddhist lives

Christian lives

Native American lives

White European lives

White American lives

Indigenous people lives

All other lives

All matter

We all matter

Some people - racists, neo-nazis, white supremacists - think that others’ lives don’t matter,

and show it by bullying them, intimidating them, and/or physically assaulting them. They do this

really because they think that they themselves don’t matter. They were told they didn’t matter as children by parents who neglected them, belittled them, and/or beat them. In their own misguided view, they think that the only way to feel elevated themselves is to put others down - do to others what was done to them as children: deny them their humanity, call them slurs, hurt them.

Is there any hope for these sad individuals? It takes serious emotional work, but some do recover. They do so by getting the poison out of their system safely by expressing the deep hurt they experienced as children, and then making new decisions for their life based not on childhood trauma, but on a new outlook on the world, and a new view of people. These miracles do occur through therapy. They learn that they themselves matter, as do all others.