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Getting Out of Detention and Rising Like the Star You Are!

by Angela Shelton on January 6, 2010

in Empowerment,Healing & Recovery,Listen-Watch-Read,Survivor Manual TV,Videos,Workshops

When I spoke at a detention center for girls in Iowa, I was so moved by the energy, creativity and joy just waiting to burst out of them that I have plans to go back and really play guitar! I cut the video to the right to go with the Survivor Manual’s Warrior Workbook. Removing the Sword of Trauma is not just about purging the pain of abuse and violence, it’s about becoming a warrior; it’s about rising. Maya Angelou puts it perfectly in the video below – Still I Rise is relevant to survivors.

To the right, I’ve posted the video where I speak to teen girls so that you can use it along with your workbook. There are FREE pages on my Ejunkie store as well. You can download your own Workbook or follow along for free on my site.

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    Here are the words to that poem (although she does take a few artistic liberties with them in the video). Wonderful!

    You may write me down in history
    With your bitter, twisted lies,
    You may trod me in the very dirt
    But still, like dust, I’ll rise.

    Does my sassiness upset you?
    Why are you beset with gloom?
    ‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells
    Pumping in my living room.

    Just like moons and like suns,
    With the certainty of tides,
    Just like hopes springing high,
    Still I’ll rise.

    Did you want to see me broken?
    Bowed head and lowered eyes?
    Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
    Weakened by my soulful cries?

    Does my haughtiness offend you?
    Don’t you take it awful hard
    ‘Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines
    Diggin’ in my own backyard.

    You may shoot me with your words,
    You may cut me with your eyes,
    You may kill me with your hatefulness,
    But still, like air, I’ll rise.

    Does my sexiness upset you?
    Does it come as a surprise
    That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
    At the meeting of my thighs?

    Out of the huts of history’s shame
    I rise
    Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
    I rise
    I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
    Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

    Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
    I rise
    Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
    I rise
    Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
    I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
    I rise
    I rise
    I rise.

    ~Maya Angelou

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