FSA Education Sunday Digest

News, announcements, and a summary of this week's articles you won't want to miss!

Aug 11, 2024

A warm welcome to all of our new subscribers!

We passed 1000 free and paid subscribers this week and I remain grateful for your ongoing support of my constant efforts to expose the reality of Family Scapegoating Abuse (FSA) and its effects on adult survivors.

Health Update: I’m relieved to report I’m at last recovering from a debilitating stomach flu that left me unable to eat for 2 weeks. I’m now malnutritioned and hence on a ‘re-feeding’ program and am slowly regaining strength. It’s been wonderful to be able to stay in touch with our community here while recovering and I again thank you for all of your encouragement, care, and well wishes during this challenging and difficult time.

News and Announcements: I’ve been asked to do an interview on FSA and adolescents by a writer who publishes in magazines like Psychology Today and I look forward to being able to contribute to this topic. Adolescence is when my ‘righteous rage’ began to bubble up in regard to FSA dynamics, but I of course didn’t realize this at the time. I now see this anger and rebellion as having been critical to my holding onto my developing sense of self separate from the ‘scapegoat narrative’ regarding what a “difficult” baby and child I was (I’ll write more about that at a later date). Once this article is out I’ll be sure to share it with you all here.

I’m also pleased to share my agent is finalizing a contract for rights to publish my book in Dutch worldwide by a top Netherlands-based publishing house. It can take one to two years for the book to actually come out but when it does, I’ll announce it here - I know that I have many Dutch-speaking followers who have been hoping my book would be translated and we are now almost there!

Coach Jerry Wise, who has a large following on YouTube, kindly recommended my best-selling introductory book on FSA, Rejected, Shamed, and Blamed, at the end of his video, Why Nobody Believes the Scapegoat.

A subscriber shared this poem by William Butler Yeats and I wanted to pass it along to you here because I had not heard it before and I loved it. What ‘old mythologies’ might you be wearing that you are needing to shed so as to live authentically?

I made my song a coat / Covered with embroideries / Out of old mythologies / From heel to throat; / But the fools caught it, / Wore it in the world’s eyes / As though they’d wrought it. / Song, let them take it / For there’s more enterprise / In walking naked.