If you’re in DC,
You might want to think about participating in some way in the National Race to Stop the Silence on April 17, to help raise money and awareness to stop child sexual abuse. Thanks to Leah for the pointer!
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And another thing
A comment left on that last post reminded me of another important reality. Healing from childhood abuse takes time, there’s no doubt about that, but the other thing is, it’s never too late to start! There’s plenty of times I look at my life, at the age of 35, and wish I hadn’t wasted so…
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It takes time
Something I’ve been thinking about since reading Sean’s post to this forum topic has been just how important it is to understand that recovering from childhood abuse, whether it be physical, emotional, verbal, sexual, or whatever combination of those is in your experience is not a quick process. It takes time and a lot of…
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Donation made
I’m closing up last year’s business today. I just went to Prevent Child Abuse America and donated the $35 that had been raised this year through Amazon links and CafePress referrals Thank you to everyone for making that possible. I’ve also renewed this domain for another year, so here’s to hoping this site can be…
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New blog
Found a new link to a fellow survivor of child abuse and have added her to the blogroll over there under that category. It seems that the blog was just started this month, but the frank, honest nature of the writing has made an immediate impact on me. I expect I’ll be back many times….
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Holidays
It’s holiday time here in the US again. We’ll be traveling later today and spending Thanksgiving with the in-laws. Should be nice to spend some time down there with them. But being with family isn’t what I want to talk about today, it’s being thankful. It may not seem like, as an abuse survivor, there’s…