Re - Creations Quarterly 2015 Winter Edition Volume III | Página 2

Re - Creations Quarterly
You are free to create or re-create yourself, your life, your destiny
Guest Spot light R os enna Bakari cont’d

Have you forgiven your perpetrators? Do you believe this is necessary step?
Forgiveness may or may not arise. It’s not something that I feel I need to do. My focus is on me, not the violators. I exiled
from my family so that I don’t have to deal with the violators or those that continue to love them. That’s their life. I have
chosen my own. So forgiveness is not even a part of my healing equation.
Does religion or spirituality play a role in your life? How?
Spirituality is extremely important to me. I am a steward of humanity. That’s spiritual to me. I try to use my life to make the
human experience less painful for people by offering safe space for people to heal. I have learned from spiritual people along
the way. The spiritual path has been in existence as long as human beings have been here, actually before. We are spiritual
beings having a human experience. So, spirituality plays a part in everyone’s life. It’s just a matter of how. For me, everything is
spiritual. It’s about living in the present, living in the now, feeling the connection between me and every single moment I
breathe.
In what ways do you raise awareness, advocate, help others who have been sexually abused?
I administer a Face Book page and I am the executive director for an organization. Both are called Talking Trees: Adult
Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Incest. I have an annual conference, April 15th in Iowa for adult survivors of
childhood sexual abuse and incest. For information on it, check out the website. Talking Trees is the first organization to
advocate living openly as survivors to heal the wounds. Wounds must breathe in order to heal. Then we have to allow them
to heal fully, which takes time and care. So I have been healing openly as a survivor alongside supporting survivors. I am not
telling people how to live. I am supporting survivors’ lives and creating safe space for them to make healing choices. That is my
commitment each day.
I'M TIRED by Rosenna Bakari
I’m tired of living with the will to die
I’m tired of people telling me I shouldn’t cry
I’m tired of having to make myself so small
I’m tired of living with my back against the wall
I’m tired of feeling permanently stuck
I’m tired of feeling like I want to give up
Now what’s this I hear about a talking tree?
Something about branches that can speak to me
Telling me I don’t have to take this pain to my grave
Telling me how to constructively release my rage
So many lost souls were simply hidden in this tree
Each branch I touch whispers “here, we are free”

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