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		<title>Donate before it&#8217;s too late</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 20:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey Quezada</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We only have 12 days left to raise funds for &#8220;You and Me and the Fruit Trees.&#8221; Millions of children are affected by this endemic and many adults struggle with the ongoing trauma of CSA. Child sexual abuse is a public health issue that impacts not only individuals, but whole communities and society at large. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prevent, Aware, Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey Quezada</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It doesn’t end with sensationalized stories of children being sexually abused in locker rooms and churches. Stories like these should push us to educate our children about inappropriate touching and grooming. Child sexual abuse is not just happening in locker rooms and churches but in many living rooms and bedrooms across the nation. Ninety three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Child Abuse Prevention Day!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey Quezada</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[October is a big month for us! Producer/Director Tracey Quezada will be presenting the “Work in Progress” at the Humanist Hall on October 20th at 7:00pm. So come out and show your support. Our partner TAALK, will interview Tracey for part of a 24 hour internet radio show recognizing child abuse prevention day November 19th [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Holiday season remember to take time out for YOU</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Balin Yoga</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the hustle and bustle of the Holiday season, we are programmed to find joy in doing for others.  It is equally important to reprogram ourselves to remember to take time out for YOU.  Please.  You deserve some time just for YOU, even if it&#8217;s only two minutes! Enjoy this 2-minute Breathe Break designed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review of &#8220;A Private Family Matter&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 04:46:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn Tolson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Private Family Matter by Victor Rivas Rivers How does a child survive his boyhood with a father who delivers endless emotional, verbal, and physical torture? This is what the reader learns from Victor Rivas. Born in Cuba, his family immigrated to America before Castro’s rule. Yet Victor did not escape the sadistic dictatorship of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review of &#8220;Beyond the Tears: A True Survivor&#8217;s Story&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.survivormanual.com/2009/11/review-of-beyond-the-tears-a-true-survivors-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn Tolson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Must Read on Domestic Violence, Sexual Abuse &#38; Suicide! Reading Lynn C. Tolson’s memoir Beyond the Tears:A True Survivor’s Story and feeling the relentless deluge of misfortune is like traveling through a desert thunderstorm. In the book, as in the desert, the sun comes out at the end and hope reigns. Author Tolson draws [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review of &#8220;Crazy Love&#8221; A Memoir</title>
		<link>http://www.survivormanual.com/2009/11/review-of-crazy-love-a-memoir/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn Tolson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Crazy Love: A Memoir by Leslie Morgan Steiner Leslie Morgan Steiner, a Harvard graduate with a coveted position at Seventeen magazine and a hip apartment in downtown New York City, seemed to have it all. She had already achieved sobriety, after determining she did not want to follow in her mother’s alcoholic lifestyle. Her father [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review of &#8220;I Closed My Eyes: Revelations of A Battered Woman&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn Tolson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Review of I  Closed My Eyes: Revelations of A Battered Woman (Rebuilding Life After Domestic Violence) by Michele Weldon The author writes in the preface, “I can pray someday I will understand why he did what he did.” A decade after the publication of her book, Ms. Weldon may know that she may never make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Isolation of Domestic Abuse</title>
		<link>http://www.survivormanual.com/2009/10/isolation-of-domestic-abuse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn Tolson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not long after the marriage ceremony, my new husband, Todd, wanted to buy land in Chandler, Arizona. He said we could get rich quick on the land while living cheap in a trailer. I was only twenty-one, and I objected to moving out of Tempe, away from my Arizona State University campus friends. Todd threw [...]]]></description>
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