REPAIR Your Life | REPAIR Your Life
Aug.12.2012
Having survived three domestic violence relationships, I’ve discovered there is a formula that describes most. Untreated child abuse + codependent behavior = a domestic violence situation waiting to happen. Once you move past the formula a complex history lurks. There are other formulas but...
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Jan.20.2012
When I was a tiny child I remember my mother rocking me and murmuring, “What shall I do when my baby grows up?” It was a memory that lingered for many decades, bringing comfort like the soft stroke of a hand. Despite all of the sexual abuse I...
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Aug.06.2011
As the author of the REPAIR series which incudes: REPAIR Your Life, REPAIR For Kids, REPAIR For Toddlers and The REPAIR Your Life Workbook, I was startled when my publisher, Victor Volkman of Loving Healing Press asked me to write REPAIR For Teens. I thought I had covered that age group in the...
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Jul.02.2011
I found out a few days ago that my book REPAIR Your Life is #3 in the e-books, category ACOA (Adult Children of Alcoholics). My book, It's Your Choice! Decisions That Will Change Your Life is #25 in the same category of e-books. I was elated. I spent many years just trying to publish or to find an...
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Apr.03.2011
Several years ago I asked my family doctor how many families are dysfunctional. His reply: "They're all dysfunctional", surprised me. It doesn't surprise me now. In the opening pages of my book, REPAIR Your Life: A Program for Recovery from Incest & Childhood Sexual Abuse I mention...
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Oct.17.2010
I am sitting in my library listening to one of my favorite songs, "Someone like you" by Linda Eder from the Broadway musical Doctor Jeckle/Mr. Hyde. It brings back memories of a different time, a time when my world was full of people I loved, a special friend I did things with: going to...
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Aug.26.2010
A few years ago I was married to my third abuser, living part time in a women's shelter, suicidal and filled with despair. Today I'm the happiest person I know. What happened? What did I do? I resolved the problem. Sound simple? It isn't, but then it wasn't easy to get to where I was. It took me...
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Jun.15.2010
My husband and I recently journeyed back to a small farming community in northeast Nebraska (pop 380) to attend my class reunion. Boone County is one of the loveliest spots in our nation. Its pastoral scenes include rolling hills, in the summer covered with young plants of corn waving in a...
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Jun.06.2010
A Google alert blazed the heading,Reports on Child Labor and Sexual Abuse of Children in Pakistani Society;, from MEMRI, Middle East Media Research Institute. 2012 cases of child sexual abuse were recorded from all over Pakistan during 2009; this number shows a 9.4% increase. It means...
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May.15.2010
On March of 2009 I wrote a blog about sexual abuse in Africa starting with a cry for help that I received through my email from a young lady who had been kidnapped and was forced to be a sex slave. Unfortunately, despite me contacting many organizations that could have helped the young lady, we...
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