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Finding My Voices, My Journey Out of the Pain
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51 years old
HART, Michigan
United States
Last Login: 12/11/2006
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Looking for abuse survivors to be a part of my new book. Contact me directly to find out what I'm looking for. Thank you!
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| | Music | just about anything, depending on my mood/s. | | Movies | i like only good ones ... and my husband picks them out for me. he is very good at knowing what i like. | | Television | i don't go there. | | Books | lots and lots of them ...
i started with E. Sue Blume's book, Secret Survivors, which saved my life, literally.
i could not have done this healing stuff without that book. i referred back to it many many times in order to ground myself and reassure myself that i was not going crazy, but that i was merely suffering what any human being suffers when abused ... emotionally, physically, and sexually.
Books I've Read:
* Secret Survivors, by E. Sue Blume
* When Rabbit Howls, by Truddi Chase
* Repressed Memories, by Renee Fredrickson, PH.D
* The Stranger in the Mirror. Dissociation - The Hidden Epidemic, by Marlene Steinberg
* Beginning to Heal, by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis
* Multiple Personality Disorder from the Inside Out, by Barry Cohen
* The Dissociative Identity Disorder Sourcebook, by Deborah Bray Haddock
* A Mind of My Own, by Chris Costner Sizemore, author of Eve
* Amongst Ourselves, by Tracy Alderman and Karen Marshall
* Magic Daughter, by Jane Phillips
* Betrayal of Innocence, by Dr. Susan Forward and Craig Buck
* Incest and Sexuality, by Wendy Maltz
* Caring for Sexually Abused Children, by Dr. R. Timothy Kearney
* The Myth of Sanity, by Martha Stout
* Not Child's Play, by Risa Shaw
* Ghosts in the Bedroom, by Ken Graber
* I Hate You, Don't Leave Me, Understanding the Borderline Personality, by Jerold J. Kreisman
* Allies in Healing, by Laura Davis
* First Person Plura, by Cameron West
* The Courage to Heal, by Laura Davis
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the parts of me that survived the abuse ... they are all incredible people. |
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| Status: | Married | | Orientation: | Straight | | Religion: | Christian - other | | Zodiac Sign: | Virgo | | Smoke / Drink: | No / No | | Children: | Proud parent | | Education: | Some college |
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HELP WANTED: NEEDING COMMENTS
i am needing comments to my book,
Finding My Voices; My Journey Out of the Pain of Incest
Healing from Borderline Personality Disorder and Multiple Personality Disorder
"It is quite a shock to a person's system to come to find that what they had considered normal was, instead, considered abuse. I had always felt that something was "wrong" with me, until I uncovered the deep dark secrets my family kept hidden for years. My mother and my brother had molested me; my family had pinned a scarlet letter on me since I was very small, and my little mind had no other choice but to create other personalities to survive the trauma of my abuse......"
your comments will be used in my submission letters as i search for the
right publisher for my book. i have gotten two acceptance letters,
but they weren't the right publishers for me.
thank you in advance!
barbara
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About Me:
i am an incest survivor. i didn't know that until 2 years ago though, because i did not know the definition of the term. so for 46 years i have been a walking time bomb, ready to explode at any time and not understanding why. i have been married for 25 years and have experienced the intense roller coaster ride of emotional ups and downs that an abusive past creates. my marriage has been threatened many many times because the pain has been too much to bear and neither one of us could stand much more. but because of our beautiful kids, we have stuck it out through thick and thin because we have not wanted to break up our little family and cause more pain than what we were already experiencing. it has been worth it, but it has taken repeated committment and perseverance from both of us to make this work. i haven't regretted any of it.
when i learned that the chaos and pain i had been experiencing all of my life was due to sexual abuse, emotional abuse, and neglect (as all of the books have described), i did not know if i could survive it. my world as i knew it ceased to exist, and i had to pick up the shattered pieces and rebuild my life, piece by piece, believing somehow that the broken shards of my life would ultimately create a beautiful mosaic that would catch the Light and glisten ... that my life would come out of the deep darkness and become something that others could see, as scary as it was to reveal it. and that in dealing with the dark issues that were before me, the light of truth would shine through, creating beautiful dancing patterns on my mosaic life that i could finally embrace and enjoy and then share with others.
it has been a difficult task. it has been a daunting task at times. there have been times that i have laid in bed, sobbing, wanting to die because of the intense pain. but i found a therapist who understood my pain and who led me out of my overwhelming fears and who continues to work with me today to bring more healing, more truth, and more light to my ever changing mosaic life.
i want to post my book online because i want to share the healing steps that i have learned with others here. life is too short to live in overwhelming pain every day. i want to provide hope that you, too, can break free of the turmoil and make sense of your pain. i want to provide guidance and direction for you to find Truth that will, indeed, set you free. i want to tell you that every healing step is worth it, no matter how difficult or painful it is. it is in going through the pain that we can be released of it, and it is in burying the pain that it destroys us.
and so i continue on my own healing journey, sharing it with you here. if you'd like to comment or ask questions as you read my book, i'd love to hear from you. i also want to encourage you, too, to share your own story, because it is worth being read.
i need you as much as we need each other. please don't hestiate to make your own comments on anything that i post ... i need your support and encouragement too.
here's to our healing journey ... together. and together, we will heal!
love and blessings to all,
barbara
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