To Bloggers Participating in Isurvive.org Fundraiser…

To those of you who are participating in the Isurvive fundraiser by writing a blog entry about Isurvive.org … First of all, thank you very much for your support. We are currently in fifth place. As long as we stay one of the top five charities, we will earn a portion of the $6,000 giveaway. [...]

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Healing Unmet Need after Child Abuse

On my blog entry entitled Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID): Are Any Alter Parts “Bad”?, a reader posted the following comment: It is the little girl that is the worst problem. I know this sounds terrible, because she is a little girl, but the sorrow and the fear are more than I can tolerate EVEN with [...]

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Are Child Abuse Survivors More Prone to Illness?

On my blog entry entitled Rough Day with Eating Disorder Yesterday, a reader posted the following comment: Isn’t it true that abuse survivors have more illness than those who are not abused? Right now I am into my fifth auto-immune disease diagnosis and I can tell you when I first hear the news I get [...]

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Calling All Bloggers — I Need Your Help!

Attention all fellow bloggers – I need your help to try to earn a cash award for Isurvive. I wrote all about Isurvive on my last blog entry. Isurvive could split $6,000 with four other worthy charities if we can get enough bloggers to write a brief blog entry about the charity. Isurvive operates on [...]

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Isurvive: Message Board for Child Abuse Survivors

A fellow member of Isurvive, my favorite message board for survivors of child abuse, told me about Zemanta, which donates money to not-for-profit organizations that make a difference. The fellow member wrote about Isurvive on her blog, My Monster Has a Name. I am now going to do the same thing. In November 2003, I [...]

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My Mother/Abuser is Backing Down (for now)

If you are new to my blog, you can catch up on this saga by reading these blog entries: Mother/Abuser Trying to Force a Reconciliation! Got Another Letter from my Mother/Abuser Still Not Sure What to Do about Unwanted Contact from Mother/Abuser Mystery Solved! Why My Mother-Abuser has been Hounding Me I received another letter [...]

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Healing from Child Abuse: Pushing through the Barriers

On my blog entry entitled Healing from Child Abuse: Ongoing Process of Endless Growth, a reader posted the following comment: Hey… could you talk more about this idea of “pushing through the barrier” and “getting it over with”… I’m really feeling stuck in therapy lately. We’ve hit some rough territory and every session we’re doing [...]

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Healing from Child Abuse: Ongoing Process of Endless Growth

On my blog entry entitled Connecting Emotions with Painful Memories after Child Abuse, a reader posted the following comment: I almost never cry. The thought of “buckets” of tears coming sounds like paradise and scares me to death. I feel deeply, and that seems to be where it stays. Am down the healing road a [...]

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Mystery Solved ! Why My Mother-Abuser has been Hounding Me

Those of you who read my blog regularly are aware that my mother-abuser has been contacting me over the last few months and trying to force a reconciliation between us. That is not going to happen. You can catch up by reading these blog entries: Mother/Abuser Trying to Force a Reconciliation! Got Another Letter from [...]

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DID: Using Older Alter Parts to Comfort Younger Alter Parts

On my blog entry entitled Dealing with Internal Conflict while Healing from Child Abuse, a reader posted the following comment: I wonder is it possible for the parts(s) of you that are non-resisting or adult parts to directly communicate with the resistant ones….? Could the adult ones comfort the 2 year old and help her [...]

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