1. The Devil's Advocate

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* Your Feelings Need to Get Hurt* https://medium.com/romasharma/the-benefits-of-being-hurt-c8fa5e792576* Every time we go through pain we learn something. The lesson could be big or small -it carries meaning for us. When someone abuses me I learn how it feels to be at the receiving end of such treatment. This gives me an idea of how not to treat others because I now know how they could feel. This knowledge subtly shapes my personality.* Empathy helps people form strong bonds with others. People who are empathetic manage to have great relationships as others feel understood in their presence. It’s noteworthy that empathetic people are also the ones who have suffered long enough to be able to understand another’s pain.* There are several people who have been victims of childhood abuse and have grown into beings rescuers for others, in adulthood. They tie up with NGOs, adopt children or do some kind of volunteer work to prevent others from going through the same. * Hurt and pain are great motivators. They teach us what to move towards and what to move away from. Without this knowledge it would be difficult for us to make decisions that are favourable to us.* Research indicates that events by themselves don’t have any impact on people. The perception of the event makes them feel the way they do.* You are not entitled to have others accept or understand your perceptions.* We earn acceptance and understanding through our relationships, how we project ourselves and how we are received by others, i.e. Lesser Magic.

2. Infernal Informant

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* Mother says she killed her three children to protect them from abuse* https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mother-says-she-killed-her-three-children-protect-them-abuse-n1264414* A woman suspected of killing her three children in Los Angeles said she did it to protect them from abuse.* On Thursday Liliana Carrillo, 30, granted a jailhouse interview to NBC affiliate KGET in Bakersfield, California, where she is being held after she was arrested on suspicion of carjacking the day her children's bodies were discovered by their grandmother.* The children, Joanna, 3; Terry, 2; and Sierra, 6 months, were found the morning of April 10 in an apartment in the Reseda section of Los Angeles. Carrillo fled and was captured later that day after carjacking a motorist in Kern County, authorities said.* Asked what happened to the children, she told KGET, "I drowned them."* "I wasn’t about to hand my children off to be further abused," she said.* Police initially said the children were stabbed, and the Los Angeles County coroner has not said whether drowning was involved.* Carrillo pleaded not guilty Wednesday to the carjacking, attempting carjacking and taking a vehicle with the owner's consent, said her public defender, Lexi Blythe, by email.* Carrillo is being held on $2 million bail, along with an additional bail restriction, according to Kern County Sheriff's Office records.* The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office has not charged her in the deaths of her children, and a spokesman did not immediately respond Saturday to a request for information.