I was pleased when I first found your blog and now this site is also an inspiration to me and so many. Thank you so much for your honesty, experience, wisdom, strength and hope, your sharing it is help so many people.

Madison:)

I love it here. I nestle in the love and understanding of those who know. Its a warm place. Shah. X

Your strength and compassion for others is a shining beacon on the dark and stormy seas of the night. Your poem is beautiful, honest, and yet haunting at the same time. By becoming vulnerable to others and opening yourself up wide, you will heal many lives left in the wake of violence and innocense lost. May God bless you for it...Namaste.'

Hi this is amazing site! really perfect and it will be a new inspirations for me

Someone I work with visits your blog frequently and recommended it to me to read too. The writing style is great and the content is top-notch. Thanks for the insight you provide the readers!

Really love all these stories.. have been reading them daily. Please add more if you have any… Thanks a lot again for this awesome work.

This site gives me even more hope that people who have survived any kind of abuse can have healing for themselves.

I was molested at the age of 8 yrs. old and it affected my whole life. My healing began when I was finally able to tell my parents when I was in my 30's. I had always said I would take this secret to my grave because I didn't want my parents to feel like it was their fault. It was the fault of the man who was "supposedly" a friend of my dad's. My therapist at the time told me that in telling the very ones I needed to tell about what happened to me at age 8, it would give me the healing that I needed to finally move on with my life. To be able to place what happened to me on a shelf in my mind and take my life back...and that is what I did.
It was very difficult telling my parents but it did help me. I told them when I shared what happened to me that it was in no way their fault. The fault/shame belong to the man who did this to me and no one else.
Thanks for giving us a place to come and see for ourselves that there is hope in healing. The site is amazing and beautiful! Keep up the great work you do here. =)
Sharon

I am posting the link to your website on my child abuse trauma recover site, Stop the Storm.

Thank you for the important work you are doing, and please stop over!

Awesome page you have here, Joanne. Keep up the good work, and maybe some day I'd like to submit something for your archive. As a survivor of all sorts of abuse and still dealing with many issues on many levels, I'd like to commend you on your work here. Thank you for what you do.

Hi My name is Holly,
I found this web site from the Gift from within web site.I have post tramatic stress disorder.I also have scitzoefective disoredr.I was abused by my father sexually when I was growing up.I try to kep busy.I'm living in a care home for adults with
mental illness.I go to a day program monday through friday it's called S.H.A.M.A house.We have classes there computer,moving on through depression,art,Bingo,exersize,ect.I live in North Bend Oregon.
from,
Holly

I've had one horrible nightmare, all or in part, over and over, for years. While helping victims of abuse, something worked itself loose and I realized my nightmares were surpressed memories of my own abuse.

I wrote a fictionalized novel about these dreams from a child's perspective. If I'm going to be anything it will be a writer, because I am pretty much socially paralyzed right now. Please have a look and my best to all here.

in faith, hope and love, tristan

The work being doine here is absolutely beautiful. Keep it up.