My Life, My Love

April 24, 2011

This month, I was honored to speak at Take Back the Night in Lubbock, Texas. I realized that I was going to be able to share why standing up against sexual violence was so important for me and why it should be important to everyone, not just those affected by violence. The reason that this [...]

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Stories of Healing & the Social Movement to end Child Sexual Abuse sparks discussion:

April 21, 2011

Mayor Jean Quan joined the discussion. Hear what the panel, community and the Mayor had to say. [vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/22685931[/vimeo]    In collaboration with Stopping Our Silence (S.O.S.) we presented our first community screening with a Q and A discussion April 16th at the East Oakland Youth Development Center.  Our panel included Chris Lymbertos of Generation Five, Bill [...]

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Review of “Crash Into Me: A Survivor’s Search for Justice”

March 9, 2011

Liz Seccuro spent years building her world anew after it had been destroyed by rape when she was seventeen. The strong foundation of her carefully structured life was weakened when the rapist, William Beebe, dared to contact her twenty-two years after the assault. Ms. Seccuro wrote Crash Into Me as a concise narrative that documents [...]

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Protecting Our Children from Unwanted Touch… Three Books To Read

March 5, 2011

As all of us can imagine a childhood free and clear of what we lived through, we also know that we will do – whatever it takes – to ensure nothing ever, ever happens to our own children. And because of what we know – we know the signals, we know what to look out [...]

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Please Help This Research Study ~ Vanderbilt University

March 3, 2011

Research Study ~ Vanderbilt University

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Self-Compassion: treating yourself kindly

March 2, 2011

One of the kindest Survivors I’ve ever met went home every night and hit herself with her own fists, and refused to eat. Many survivors of abuse have a tendency to treat others better than they treat themselves. I have found that Survivors can be compassionate toward others, yet so critical, harsh, even violent, toward [...]

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Hello New York : Film about healing from Child Sexual Abuse

February 26, 2011

The making of this film has introduced me to amazing advocates all over the United States that are dedicated to ending child sexual abuse. I’m now planning my trip to New York to interview some of the extraordinary people I met. These individuals and organizations are working to build change at the community level, increase [...]

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“What if my body had a sexual response during rape?”

February 24, 2011

Excerpted from the book “Resurrection After Rape,” http://www.resurrectionafterrape.org What follows is a forthright discussion of a difficult topic. Effort has been made to treat the topic with dignity and respect, but the customary trigger warning applies, of course. —– To a degree far greater than in men, women express emotional sensations as physical ones. You [...]

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4 Steps to Help You Evolve to the Next Level

February 5, 2011

Yesterday I thought of many of you while I was standing at the top of a mountain looking across the gorgeous span of countryside.  I evolved from green to blue.  I graduated from nervous skier to confident one who can carve turns and not clumsily fall on my face.   As I skied down the fifth [...]

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