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Four Presentations on Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse |
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Presentations by Annie Fisher and Stephen Michael Tumolo
Saturday October 20, 9:30-11:00am: "Healing with Inner Relationship Focusing"
Wednesday October 31, 5:30-6:30pm and 7:00-7:50pm: "Trauma and Resiliency"
Saturday November 10, 9:30-11:00am: "Healing with Somatic Experiencing"
Wednesday December 12, 5:30-6:30pm and 7:00-7:50pm: "Spirituality and Trauma"
Saturday gatherings will be held at the Cascia Center meeting room, 1312 S. Broad Street, South Philadelphia, PA
Wednesday gatherings will be held at The Starting Point, 212 Highland Avenue, Westmont, NJ
These gatherings are open to all at no cost. For more information, click the link below to access the original flyer.
Four Presentations on "Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse" |
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Mendham clergy sex abuse memorial rededicated in show of support
By PHIL GARBER, Managing Editor | Posted: Monday, April 30, 2012 9:12 am
MENDHAM ‑ Bill Crane recalled how he felt when he got the phone call at his Oregon home last November that someone had shattered the memorial to clergy sexual abuse survivors at St. Joseph Church.
"It was exactly how I felt," said Crane, 46, who lived in Mendham when as a child, he was sexually assaulted by former parish priest, James Hanley. "Shattered."
The 400-pound black basalt monument was replaced at its original spot next to the West Main Street church at a public ceremony on Saturday.
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written by Michael Hoffman
On June 14, 2006 while reading the Chicago Tribune newspaper, I came upon an article about 4 men who filed a civil suit against the Archdiocese of Chicago, alleging childhood sexual abuse by a Catholic priest. I had read similar articles like this before, but on this day, this newspaper article was different.
On this day I began to realize the sexual activity I endured as a child was perverse and depraved, wrong and criminal. My abuser was a priest who was a friend of our family, and he told me the physical encounters were normal ways we show love and affection for one another. On this day I began to understand what he imposed upon me was not normal and not love or affection at all, but in fact, traumatic and very painful. I was 12 years old.
On this day, through tears and shaking with complete exhaustion as I struggled with the memories, I began to recover from the traumatic and long-lasting effects of childhood sexual abuse. I call it, "Acts of Recovery".
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Some things you can do if news coverage of abuse stories is triggering you. |
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Written by: Chris on 6/14/12
From: MaleSurvivor.org
5505 Connecticut Avenues NW
PMB 103
Washington, District of Columbia 20015
Feeling powerless can be a major trigger for many survivors. So too is the feeling that your voice is not going to be heard or your thoughts are not important. The current coverage of the Sandusky trial (and the other stories that are sure to follow) can easily to give rise to these feelings. Since the start I know I've struggled with both these feelings and it's very likely that a lot of other survivors and their loved ones will be triggered as well. As the Sandusky trial focuses society's attention to the issue of sexual abuse, it is also inevitable that someone is going to say something (or not say something) that will send someone else into a spiral of anger, frustration, sadness, or even fear.
My hope in posting this information with you is to share a few things: 1. What does being triggered feel like?, 2.What can I do if I feel I'm becoming triggered and/or feeling overwhelmed?, and 3. What can I do to make a difference?
What does being triggered feel like?
Getting triggered does not give rise to a simple, uniform set of symptoms that can be easily labeled. Everyone (survivor or not) presents a unique blend of emotions and reactions to any given stimulus. But, if you find yourself struggling with more negative emotions than usual - anger, sadness, anxiety, bitterness, etc., if you are noticing that things that normally do not bother you are becoming stressors (for example, maybe you are more irritable in traffic than normal); and/or if you find yourself pushing others away and wanting to be alone - these can all be signs that you might be upset and need to take some time to rest, reflect, and exercise some self care.
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CALL FOR CHILD SEX ABUSE (CSA) SURVIVOR HOME VIDEO STATEMENTS
to appear in the video short/documentary:
“I’M A SURVIVOR. SO WHAT?”©
***DEADLINE OCTOBER 26, 2011***
CLICK THIS LINK FOR MORE INFORMATION |
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Skating Past Pain: Olympian Hopes to Help Young Victims of Sex Abuse |
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Deseret Morning News
Published: Sunday, Oct. 10, 2004 12:38 a.m. MDT
There is no way to skate faster than haunting memories. There is no way — even at world record speeds — to race away from a childhood history that made one of this generation's most powerful female athletes weak.
Even from a hero's podium, the golden light of celebrity could not warm the sadness long carried inside Chris Witty.
That slow, cold sorrow, as it turned out, was swifter than even Chris' lucky skates. And so, two weeks after she won the gold medal in Utah's Winter Olympic Games in 2002, Chris Witty quit running and turned to face head-on a childhood full of sexual abuse.
Today, the 29-year-old hopes if she is anyone's hero, anyone's role-model, it can be as someone who has made her way through a sea of depression and 20 years of shame and turned out OK.
"I hope I can inspire someone else to overcome something like this," she said from her Park City home.
If she speaks out, she hopes more children will know sexual abuse is never the fault of a child who is 4 or 5 or even 10 years old.
She hopes children will tell someone if they've been touched or abused.
And she prays parents will watch their children carefully and listen if they say they've been hurt.
"The best friend of child sexual abuse is secrecy." — Mitzi Dunford, Witty's psychotherapist
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 Join Justice4PAKids as they host a FREE SEMINAR event
When: October 6,2011
Where: UFCW Local 1776, 3031 Walton Road,
Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462
Time: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
This event is open to the public and is sponsored by Justice4PAKids.com. For more information or to rsvp please contact
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Click here for a link to the seminar flyer. Please feel free to pass this information on to others who might be interested.
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Hi all,
I would just like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank you all for your interest and participation in my research. Without your valuable contribution this research would not be possible.
This project is due to finish on the 31st August so I’d like to ask anyone who has partially completed the questionnaire if you would like to fully complete it, you can delete cookies from your web browser and try again. Sites such as the site which this survey are on, store cookies on your computer to remember you, so if you clear them you'll be able to restart the survey. You may have also received an email to say your information has been saved, if you click on the link within the email it will take you back to where you left off, if you would still like to finish it off.
To anyone who has completed it and think they know of others who may be interested, please direct them to my research link. The more people I get, the stronger the case will be to promote the needs and interests of individual survivors and to improve service provision and responses to sexual violence and childhood sexual abuse.
To anyone who is new to my research, and you are interested in taking part, please follow the link above. Your participation and contribution would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks to all.
Tara
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