You're trying to keep together the family
and trying to convince yourself, well maybe
there are reasons why you should stay and
part of them because of the children because
you want your kids to live with a father.
He's like 6'3'' and he weighs like 220 pounds,
it was very hard to defend myself from him.
He will just beat me up until he sees I'm
unconscious, choke me until I passed out,
and unfortunately he did these things in front
of my child.
When I look back to all what I went through
it's truly a miracle that I'm alive.
My child developed severe symptoms of post-traumatic
stress disorder.
He had a lot of hospitalizations that prevented
me from working so I became homeless.
It's devastating seeing your child suffer
so much, struggling to make sense out of the
violence that he witnessed.
I was invited to the Family Justice Center
and I was offered help.
I took all possible help that I can from them.
They have been wonderful.
To learn TM has been like a life-changing
experience.
I feel so calm after meditation that it's
very hard for me to get into confrontations
with anyone.
Anger and stress is something that I feel
that is corrupting my life a bit because it
makes my temper extremely short and it just
makes me feel unhappy all the time and with
TM, like, it just takes it all away.
And I just feel happy.
After he left the class, he said, "Those were
the best 10 minutes of my life."
I feel hopeful.
Life that has been grey for so long became
back to colors.
I wish everybody have the opportunity to learn
this.
It will have a great impact in their children.
And I think that's the most important thing
of all.
