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Jan.17.2013 Hidden Wounds Lists of symptoms will never give us the depth of information we need to recognize the people around us who have hidden wounds from childhood sexual abuse. I think about this when I hear survivors describe themselves when they were in school D was an organizer. An average student, she...	Oct.13.2012 Messy Memories In our everyday world, we tend to like our memories neat and tidy. Friends and family often get into conversations about past events with each person laying claim to what really happened. Although each person experienced the moment from their very personal collection of feelings and through the...
Sep.14.2012 Self Help Takes Courage September 14, 2012 ☆..✿.•°*”˜ Survivors of child abuse didn’t explore the landscape of childhood; they hunted for paths that might avoid landmines of harm. Whether they tip-toed with caution or brought their guns of anger, their primary focus was getting through another day. Secrets and...	Aug.09.2012 Long Term Effects of Childhood Sexual Abuse Long Term Effects of Childhood Sexual Abuse August 9, 2012 News Release: Jerry Sandusky Sentencing - Author Jeanne McElvaney Offers Insight Into The Long Term Effects On Victims Jeanne McElvaney is the author of 'Spirit Unbroken: Abby's Story', an insightful journey into the world of childhood...
Jul.01.2012 Self Help Snuggled into Self Awareness July 1, 2012 Childhood sexual abuse severely diminishes self awareness. Ask a survivor what others need from them and you will get an instantaneous, perceptive, clear listing. We are tuned into this as though our life depended on it. And it often did. This ability to know what makes others...	Jun.25.2012 Courage to Change our Relationships June 25, 2012 The lessons we learn as children shape our choices many years later. For those who experienced childhood sexual abuse, this influence was ramped up and tied to our sense of survival. We left home armed with the same instinctive responses that helped us manage the chaos of our...
Jun.22.2012 Self Awareness and Choices We sometimes get together with other people hoping their mood will elevate ours or, at least, soothe, energize, or distract us. In a way, we want to bring leftovers as our contribution to a potluck while hoping we’ll find apple pie to fill our plates. Experience shows us it doesn’t...	Jun.18.2012 Courage of New Choices June 18, 2012 We do it so often… and so well. We think understanding why someone abused us diminishes its effect on us. This is a disempowering web for survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Though it gives us the comfort of not upsetting other people, excusing our abuser because we understand...
Jun.14.2012 Our Authentic Self From Go To Spirit / Facebook ~ Our authentic self •¸.•♥•.¸¸.•* Some of us are still looking for sunny meadows after a childhood spent in dark forests. Even the best life journeys give us hills to climb and raging rivers to cross. And though we sometimes lose track of it, all of us have our...	Jun.11.2012 Empowering Tears Empowering tears ° 。 ° ˛˚˛ * 。˚˚ ˛ •˛•˚ 。˚ ˚ ˛ For survivors, the past is a landscape of memories and feelings we want to avoid. Though there are moments of nostalgia scattered through those days, we have to tread lightly so we don’t consciously bump into reminders of our childhood sexual abuse....