INTRODUCTION
As a survivor of childhood abuse I will never again be defined merely by my fight to survive. While once haunted by a past that seemed destined to destroy me, through my transcendance, the only fight left now is in reaching out. If I can touch those still lost in the same senseless misery that once consumed my world, I want to give them hope that they’re worth saving. No matter what we as human’s are up against, freeing ourselves is a choice that its up to each of us to make. Otherwise we leave behind all that we are, abandoning ourselves behind a mask of self preservation; a mask that only imprisons us in the end.
This is my voice. I’m not heard only because I’m out of hearing range. My journaling, in the tab above, is where I’ll most often be expressing my feelings about my life events, hopes, dreams, and day-to-day existence. Following my journal above are pages to the poetry, essays, and articles that I’ve written.
Much thanks for stopping by.
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May 30, 2007 at 4:45 pm
Thanks for the message and linking my website to your site.
Thanks so much
Whitedove
May 30, 2007 at 4:46 pm
Thanks so much for your comments on my website at http://www.whitedovesnest.com
Whitedove
May 30, 2007 at 8:30 pm
Thanks for linking to my blog. It is so important that survivors know they are not alone and can heal and grow together.
June 1, 2007 at 6:56 am
You are stepping out to begin a path that will empower you-and all survivors will learn from the others and gain strength-like a tree and the branches how as the tree grows larger and stronger the branches reach out further and further-so as each survivor comes into these writings they become touched by these branches and become a part of the growth.
As each of us continue to write about ourselves and our pain and also our joys-our lives,we do touch the hearts of others.
I too am thankful to be a part of your blog-link because now,through you,I can possibly reach one more…
even if it is only one.
As a male who has lived with this struggle of jumble through effects of ‘ptsd’ and fear of trust,and feeling safe in my own isolation-I was standfast that I would never have anything to do with a computer. I fairly certain it was too regulated and restrictive until I learned you can shout out to the world and still remain safe in your own space…so last Aug06 I sent away for one and now dedicate myself to the few who read me and those who are learning that sexual assault is a crime that has no barriers in who it effects…child or adult,boy or a girl…man or a woman.
Society has hindered the truth-being that its unacceptable to think a man can be assaulted too. Men are victims too-either from back when he was a boy…or even as an adult can be treated against his will.
So I truely stand up in gratitude that your site sees that this is so and you understand the importance…and,I am going to do all I can to expand my knowledge of this machine to learn how to attach ‘links’ so that I can make larger this world I am discovering-the world of the blog,and broaden our message!
Thank You
June 1, 2007 at 6:08 pm
Thank you for the link and the comment you left
We’ve added yours, thought I already had.. I saw your site before today but I guess I don’t have the hang of the blogrolling thing at WP yet hah.
Love your cute little bookmark this icons, that’s so organized and neat.
June 1, 2007 at 7:21 pm
Thank you for the link and comment. I wish you the best on your journey.
June 1, 2007 at 8:51 pm
thank you for the link as well and we have bookmarked you as well and put you on our blogroll …
we hope to get to know you more and more too. take care and hope to hear from you in the near future …
June 2, 2007 at 7:08 pm
Thanks for the invite.
June 4, 2007 at 5:12 am
hi! im glad to meet you. i will put a link to you on my site as well. ive been away from my blog for a bit … just life no other reason … but im endeavoring to make time for it again, i miss it!
thanks for linking to me
kïrstin
June 4, 2007 at 8:44 am
Thanks for the comment you left on my site Ani.I’ve been dying to get back here and look around.I’ve just added a link to you.
Your poetry is beautiful. Your essays are well written and so inspiring.I look forward to hearing more about your healing journey.
June 4, 2007 at 10:54 am
Lovely site. I’ll be linking to you.
June 5, 2007 at 8:35 pm
It’s impressive to survive.
It is transendant to grow and to reach out after
surviving.
nice Blog.Great Job!
June 5, 2007 at 9:03 pm
Hi Ani - thanks for the message and linking my site. Feel free to add a link to this site as well, and thanks for asking before you did so.
Stay strong..
Survivor
June 5, 2007 at 9:27 pm
Hi Ani.
Thanks for popping by my blog. If it’s ok with you, I’d like to add you to my blogroll. You have a beautiful site here.
June 7, 2007 at 7:12 pm
This is brilliant–thanks for adding Starlit Haven to your list of survivor friends! It means a lot to me to have people to relate to, and the message you seem to be spreading is a good one. I still feel like its a haunting experience, something that defines me…but I’m hoping to get past that. I think. I don’t know, really, but this is brill. Thanks again!
June 7, 2007 at 8:02 pm
Thanks, Ani, for adding me to your blogroll, I feel honored!
Having a rough time of it right now, but will try to check out your blog in more depth if life ever slows down for me.
June 7, 2007 at 9:37 pm
So sorry for my delayed response Ani! I have been flying sideways trying to wrap up classes and a million other things.
Thank you for the link to your site. I am honored. I am going to link you too.
Also you should check out my friend Supergirlest. She is a survivor too. She is the best! http://www.always-a-musing.blogspot.com/
I will be back to look around once finals wrap up.
I am proud of your efforts and your strength. We must speak out together and support each other! It looks like you have found lots of connections so far. I am eager to meet all of them too!
PEACE, LOVE, and PURPOSE!
Sicily
June 10, 2007 at 8:37 pm
thanx for linking to my blog. i will add you too if that’s okay.
June 16, 2007 at 1:42 pm
Thanks for the link! It’s great to look around at the other sites too…good idea.
June 20, 2007 at 11:06 pm
Hello! Good Site! Thanks you! fhsayovfargced
July 8, 2007 at 9:21 am
This comment is not to lead you to my blog. I just want to draw your attention to a brilliant writer, a friend of mine, who shies away from attentions. But she has written a very touching piece on certain things which has happened to her friends. I think it is topical and she deserves to be read. I think it is relevant to this blog too …
http://cassandrababbles.wordpress.com/2007/07/08/you-curved-the-chocolate-bitter/
July 23, 2007 at 9:59 pm
I’m so glad about what you said when you visited my blog earlier-that was one of the neatest things some one has said-thank you!
Hmmm,as you have been reading-things have different in my neck of the woods,and sadly-I keep looking at your tutorial to ad links…I have yet a chance to stop and study that,but will-I promise…you went to so much to send to me!
Talk to you soon-thank you
July 27, 2007 at 1:43 pm
Thank you for linking to my blog. I love the looks here. Will have to browse more thoroughly soon.
August 3, 2007 at 8:46 pm
Hello Ani,
Hey sister survivor. Thanks for commenting on my blog.
This is a beautiful site. I wish you much success with it. I hope that you gain as much if not more from blogging about survivorship as I have.
Leah
August 14, 2007 at 8:34 pm
Thank You.
August 15, 2007 at 2:04 am
Hello Ani!
Thanks for the link, although I was not sure where to find my link
I think it is a great initiative you are taking.
Well done!
August 15, 2007 at 3:56 pm
Your appearance on my site was so unexpected and strangely magickal. Like a good omen. Sometimes when you scream it echos for a while, until it reaches someone else who is also lost in the dark.
August 15, 2007 at 9:30 pm
ani…got your email, thankyou, and i have posted your link at my place…
“you meet who you meet when you need to meet them”…perhaps this is one of those times..
k
August 23, 2007 at 5:38 pm
my name is summer, i too having diffilcuties with myself I was molested at the age of 3 by both cousins boys an girls i was molested all my life untill 13 an then I was raped at the age 15 yrs and raped by my husband an he tried to kill me 4x’s now I live with fear, depression(Bi-Polar#1, anxeity attacks, insomina, panic attacks and been phyiscally abused , mentally, emotionally, i have such a lowesteem, sometimes I don’t want to go on. been trying to heal myself by books but I have so many things blocked out how do I reopen these so i can be at peace? ty
August 23, 2007 at 5:42 pm
i have divorced my hausband and he lives with another woman he says he was sorry for everything he was an alcholic
August 26, 2007 at 12:16 pm
{{{hugz}}}
September 2, 2007 at 12:42 pm
Saw your comment at Pifflans. Just thought I´d drop in and say Hi and wish you good luck on the journey we call life..
January 24, 2008 at 9:04 pm
Your site is a wonderful example of what the human spirit is capable of when they put their heart and soul in to it. Keep up the important work.
March 6, 2008 at 7:58 am
April 15, 2008 at 12:53 am
Thank you for being here.
April 23, 2008 at 6:49 am
I will be back to further check this out, however, I stumbled across this as I was googling my name for the hell of it. I too am a survivor. I am almost 44 years old and still suffering from my 13 year ordeal with my stepfather who sexually abused me while physically and mentally abusing my half brother and my Mom. My half brother has just made a decision to reenter this man’s life and I am furious! I will never speak to him or his wife again but continue a relationship with my 3 neices. My half brother molested my oldest neice who somehow has forgived him for some reason after 10 years or so. I was baptised and raised as a Catholic, and currently am seeking the faith with a great Congregation. I have Fibromyalgia and PTSD and through the last 10 years almost, it has gotten worse, not better. Thank you for your site! I know I am not alone and doors need to be shut! How to shut them once their open again, is what I’m experiencing now. So many angry feelings and so much hurt! When will it stop?
Again, thank you and I support you and all others seeking to find peace within yourself.
Best regards to all and you