David William Phillips

The road less traveled

Humble beginnings I was born October 1,1969 in Toledo, Ohio. My beginnings, I didn't learn about for nearly 38 years. What I know is that my birth mother was the victim of domestic violence the man that beat and tormented her, he also killed my infant brother and spent time in prison. I was an orphan along with two sister and another brother I haven’t met as of the time I am writing this. I was put in foster care in a children’s home in Maumee, Ohio where I was adopted by a family of German Irish descent in Ypsilanti, Michigan at age two. Looking back now I never felt quite a part of the family but more like a project a charity case and I am not sure whether there was resentment amongst my adoptive siblings or they just felt entitled or empowered to sexually abuse me from an early age. The brothers were quite a bit older than me, and the affect that my early childhood traumas caused has ghosted my adult life; even though I have spent nearly thirty years, on and off again, working with one of the best therapists in New York City, William Messina.