Sylvanna Devlin

If you’ve been targeted, keep yourself focused on the present. Hold on tightly to who you are. The good you want to be in the world.

It hurts to have been so welcomed and trusted and now rejected based on lies no one will tell us. Because they want to believe them and assume we know.

It hurts

And we may become tempted to be vicious

We may indeed become vicious and hate what we become. Lose ourselves . Sink to depression and mental illness.

And some antipsychotics will cause psychosis if the voices were real and you did not have a mental illness.

What you might really soon need is treatment for anxiety and PTSD

But stigma is a powerful tool of hate and easy to manipulate.

Meanwhile if your loved one is sinking and you find yourself fighting hardened hearts. It can sometimes be relieving- but the energy is spent and nothing changes but the target who continues to sink

Reach for the victim. Sure them up. Reinforce their self esteem. Help them hold fast as others double down, unwilling to admit wrong.

We are in for the fight of the millennium. We need to take care of those of us who just wanted to love everyone and take care of their souls.

And if you are a target. Remember it’s because you are innately so good and loved that they want to shred your reputation and turn your heart into something you don’t want.

Don’t let them win.

It’s hard. God it’s hard. But I’m here. With my forgiving nature that likes to forget wrongs. I’m here.

Hold on to each other. Believe in those who say they want to bring hope. And targets please find a way to unite though if you come to notice you will likely find yourself in a severely hacked bubble.

It’s wrong, I understand. What has happened in you ignites righteous fury.

But take it from an old dragon, that’s not getting us anywhere.

Feel your fire. Do not be ashamed of it. But do not let it ignite your world. Find an outlet. Find loud music, wild dancing, martial arts, weightlifting, swimming, running. And even a good long hike in the woods if still safe.

Burn your fury as calories in the body.

It’s hard.

God it’s hard

You will sometimes lash out and those cold hearted tormentors will laugh and say “see” after their reactive abuse makes you feel ruined.

Forgive yourself and don’t try to persuade them. Their opinion doesn’t matter. Holding on does.

Forgive yourself.

Repeat it till you do it.

Then welcome those who change their minds or make the decision to believe you and come to the light.

Forgive others too. Because even compassion doesn’t lighten the heart as much as forgiveness.

Hard as that can be.

Part of my whole idea of facilitating communication is to increase patience for one another through understanding.

Forgive those who don’t understand. Convince those you can of a different perspective and let go of the others.

Let god sort them out.

Truth will out eventually.

Dawn always follows the night.

Persevere.

And have hope.