Beth Rise:  

When I was just a little girl My parents cut off my arms and my legs And drove knives into my heart. "Now go out into the world And make us famous," they said. I tried as hard as I could But demons were eating away At my brain So I had to drop out for awhile. I grew back my arms and my legs And ran far away. But I couldn't get the knives Out of my heart. And the demons, Oh, the demons... -2005, Rangoon, Burma I was very messed up during most of my school years, having been molested by a stranger in a life-threatening situation when I was about 8. I never quite recovered from that and spent many years pretending to be "normal" and trying to figure out what was wrong with me. I was also completely controlled by a narcissistic mother who had no clue that I was having such problems. I managed to get through MSU despite anxiety, depression, social phobia and self-hatred, and even received a teaching credential. I tried teaching Art in Grand Rapids-horrible. I quit at the end of the year and never taught again. I moved to CA in 1971, never to return to MI. I finally went to physical therapy school at UCSF and worked as a PT for over 20 years. I have been working on personal growth and healing my whole life. I spent years doing yoga and meditation and my yoga name, which I've had since 1990, is Shankari (Rise). My life has been a crazy journey of self healing and discove...Expand for more