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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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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 his own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review of &#8220;Beyond the Tears: A True Survivor&#8217;s Story&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn Tolson</dc:creator>
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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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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>
		<link>http://www.survivormanual.com/2009/11/review-of-i-closed-my-eyes-revelations-of-a-battered-woman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn Tolson</dc:creator>
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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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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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		<title>Insidious Forms of Domestic Abuse</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn Tolson</dc:creator>
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Insidious: surreptitious, cunning, indirect:

Emotional abuse is an insidious form of domestic abuse that is treacherous enough to erode the self-esteem of the victim. How does it pertain to domestic violence?
 
Emotional or mental abuse occurs when one partner attempts to make the other feel bad about herself. Emotional/mental abuse often crosses lines with psychological abuse. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Invisible Forms of Domestic Abuse</title>
		<link>http://www.survivormanual.com/2009/10/invisible-forms-of-domestic-abuse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn Tolson</dc:creator>
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Your friend says of a mutual friend, “Her husband is abusing her.” What image comes to mind? Or do you think of an abused woman as beaten and battered, with black eyes and broken bones? Yet, some forms of domestic violence are invisible.
 
In 1976, when I was twenty-two years old, a friend and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perps profiting from their crimes</title>
		<link>http://www.survivormanual.com/2009/01/perps-profiting-from-their-crimes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.survivormanual.com/2009/01/perps-profiting-from-their-crimes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela Shelton</dc:creator>
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I just learned about the Never Again Foundation! 
The Never Again              Foundation is a non profit charity that gives              legal assistance to families of victims killed by   [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Domestic Violence Webcasts from State Dept</title>
		<link>http://www.survivormanual.com/2008/11/domestic-violence-webcasts-from-state-dept/</link>
		<comments>http://www.survivormanual.com/2008/11/domestic-violence-webcasts-from-state-dept/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela Shelton</dc:creator>
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There are going to be two live webcasts by the StateDept. on Dec. 1, on the subject of domestic violence. Here is theinfo:
December 1, 2008 at 9:00am ESTSpeakers: Sue Else, President, National Network to End DomesticViolence and Ruth Bennett, Public Affairs Officer, International Women\&#8217;s Issues Office, US Dept. of StateTopic: Taking Action to Combat Domestic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How do I send emails if my abuser is watching me?</title>
		<link>http://www.survivormanual.com/2007/12/how-do-i-send-emails-if-my-abuser-is-watching-me/</link>
		<comments>http://www.survivormanual.com/2007/12/how-do-i-send-emails-if-my-abuser-is-watching-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela Shelton</dc:creator>
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Here is a very interesting way to get around the fact that your abuser may be watching everything you do.
You can send emails through this system:
http://www.willselfdestruct.com/
http://survivormanual.com/
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