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		<title>Relationships</title>
		<link>http://www.survivormanual.com/2010/07/relationships/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 08:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Balin Yoga</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[For Partners]]></category>
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Oprah Winfrey is asking us to share what we still need to learn about Relationships&#8230;
Enjoy this 2-minute Breathe Break specifically about Relationships to help get you started.
Remember, the Journey Is the Destination&#8230; and it&#8217;s FREE to Breathe!
For more empowering affirmations to live a joyful life, please Become  a Fan of BalinYoga on  Facebook [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making a Positive Difference in the lives of Survivors</title>
		<link>http://www.survivormanual.com/2010/05/making-a-positive-difference-in-the-lives-of-survivors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 22:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DarleneOuimet</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Moving On]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Survivor and Supporter's Blogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angela Shelton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[darlene ouimet]]></category>
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I have such an affinity for survivors and the struggles that we go through on the road to healing. I see the pain inside a survivor of sexual abuse or domestic violence. I see the brokenness, I feel it too and I understand the trust issues and remember the feelings of hopelessness. But I also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Broken, Different, Shame Filled and Guilty ~ and Then&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.survivormanual.com/2010/05/broken-different-shame-filled-and-guilty-and-then/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 01:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DarleneOuimet</dc:creator>
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We find each other when we are ready to face some of the abuse that happened to us. We search for others in order not to feel so alone ourselves. We enjoy the camaraderie, the feeling of being understood and our common bonds. There is a unity, a common bond and an understanding that we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Surviving to Thriving on the Journey to Wholeness</title>
		<link>http://www.survivormanual.com/2010/04/from-surviving-to-thriving-on-the-journey-to-wholeness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DarleneOuimet</dc:creator>
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I am so excited to have been invited to be a contributor to this amazing network.  As a result of sexual abuse, I developed dissociated identity disorder and started to have serious depressions by the age of ten. I was struggling with an eating disorder, drug addiction and alcohol dependency by the age of 16. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Listen to the loudmouths</title>
		<link>http://www.survivormanual.com/2010/02/listen-to-the-loudmouths/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristianna Berger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Angela Shelton]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[High on Arrival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holly Ord]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mackenzie Phillips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Megan Fitzwater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pearl Healing]]></category>

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This week has been one of resounding publicity in the survivor community. It seems that survivors and activists alike are speaking out. Come on; join in and be a loudmouth! Just like these beauties&#8230;
Listen up
Today, media giant, CNN, covered Mackenzie Phillips&#8217; thoughts on how incest is never consensual.
&#8220;As I was writing the book, I thought, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real Person Moving Beyond Surviving into Joyful Living</title>
		<link>http://www.survivormanual.com/2010/01/real-person-moving-beyond-surviving-into-joyful-living/</link>
		<comments>http://www.survivormanual.com/2010/01/real-person-moving-beyond-surviving-into-joyful-living/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 03:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela Shelton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[the courage to heal]]></category>

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Megan started healing at 17 and she&#8217;s now in her 30s and understands that surviving is not about staying in trauma.  Living joyfully is what it&#8217;s all about and healing is a matter of making a choice.  She&#8217;s taking the Courage to Heal to a whole new level.  Due to how much that book brings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advocate/Author of &#8220;Beyond the Tears&#8221; Survivor Blogs</title>
		<link>http://www.survivormanual.com/2009/11/advocateauthor-of-beyond-the-tears-survivor-blogs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn Tolson</dc:creator>
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The author of Beyond the Tears: A True Survivor’s Story is Lynn C. Tolson.

The book is her memoir about suicide attempts in the aftermath of sexual abuse. She is the founder of the Project for TEARS: Telling Everyone About Rape &#38; Suicide. The mission is to 1) comfort victims by sharing her story 2) confront [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tribute to Angela Shelton By Lynn C. Tolson</title>
		<link>http://www.survivormanual.com/2009/10/tribute-to-angela-shelton-by-lynn-c-tolson/</link>
		<comments>http://www.survivormanual.com/2009/10/tribute-to-angela-shelton-by-lynn-c-tolson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:08:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn Tolson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Survivor and Supporter's Blogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beyond the Tears]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finding Angela Shelton]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lynn C. Tolson]]></category>
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After seeing the DVD &#8220;Searching for Angela Shelton&#8221; the author of  the memoir Beyond the Tears: A True Survivor&#8217;s Story, Lynn C. Tolson, was inspired to take her book out-of-the-shadows to help break the silence. Here is a poem written by Lynn as a tribute to Angela:



Our stories were similar right from the start,
With fathers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Healing Depression with Self Love</title>
		<link>http://www.survivormanual.com/2009/10/benurturned/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela Shelton</dc:creator>
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http://www.benurtured.com/
The Be Nurtured site includes homeopathy, EFT, talk therapy (not in the traditional sense), body movement, meditation, living in the moment, healing music, connection with others, alternative healing in general, the law of attraction, and many other things. She really want to emphasize the ways in which I have healed using non-traditional methods.  We [...]]]></description>
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