Today I am celebrating the 4th year anniversary of my blog. I am inviting you, my readers, to celebrate by leaving comments to let me know if I and my blog have made any difference in your life. Sometimes it is good to know the impact that we may have on others.
I am still on an emotional high from the radio program that I was on last night with Cyrus Webb as the moderation and owner of Conversations LIVE! Radio on BlogTalkRadio, Darlene Ouimet who is my friend and has her own blog Emerging From Broken, and Brad Rickerby friend and blogger of I am a Survivor. If you missed out on our very powerful talk last night, you can still listen at the following link:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/conversationslive/2011/06/01/cyrus-webb-presents-you-are-not-alone
I talked with Cyrus this morning on my Facebook page and he said that this show has gotten the highest rating of any of his shows this year. That is great news. It means that more people are being educated about child sexual abuse and its effects upon survivors.
The title of last night's radio program was "You Are Not Alone." That could be the title of my purpose in using my blog to reach out to other survivors. When I first admitted that I was an incest survivor in the late 1970's, I was pretty much alone. The county library had only three books on the topic of incest or sexual abuse. I devoured those three books and then there was nothing, no support of any kind that I could find so I continued on trying to ignore my incest issues and hoping they would go away on their own. They didn't.
It was in January of 1989, that I found help through 12-Step programs that I ernestly began my walk toward healing from incest. It is a blessing that my dad was an alcoholic. Without being an adult child of an alcholic, I might not would have ever started walking down my healing path. It was another blessing that those 12-Step people became my friends and let me talk about incest in those groups. Since then, I have seen groups that only want you to talk about how the alcoholism is affecting your life. They don't want to hear about the incest and other abuses that happened in my dysfunctional family.
In those early days, I could not separate what were the effects of the alcoholism and what were the effects of incest. They were too intertwined to be separated. I read somewhere that alcoholism is often present where incest happens. I never blamed the alcoholism for the incest because my dad was sober as much or more often than he was drunk when he sexually abused me.
I am very pleased to see the community of survivors and others who read my blog has continued to grow though the past 4 years. Since I started using Twitter and Facebook sometime in the past year and a half, the number of readers of my blog have more than doubled. I thank each of my readers for being a part of this growth and this community. I am very glad that you are all a part of my blog community. Thanks for being here.
Patricia
I am still on an emotional high from the radio program that I was on last night with Cyrus Webb as the moderation and owner of Conversations LIVE! Radio on BlogTalkRadio, Darlene Ouimet who is my friend and has her own blog Emerging From Broken, and Brad Rickerby friend and blogger of I am a Survivor. If you missed out on our very powerful talk last night, you can still listen at the following link:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/conversationslive/2011/06/01/cyrus-webb-presents-you-are-not-alone
I talked with Cyrus this morning on my Facebook page and he said that this show has gotten the highest rating of any of his shows this year. That is great news. It means that more people are being educated about child sexual abuse and its effects upon survivors.
The title of last night's radio program was "You Are Not Alone." That could be the title of my purpose in using my blog to reach out to other survivors. When I first admitted that I was an incest survivor in the late 1970's, I was pretty much alone. The county library had only three books on the topic of incest or sexual abuse. I devoured those three books and then there was nothing, no support of any kind that I could find so I continued on trying to ignore my incest issues and hoping they would go away on their own. They didn't.
It was in January of 1989, that I found help through 12-Step programs that I ernestly began my walk toward healing from incest. It is a blessing that my dad was an alcoholic. Without being an adult child of an alcholic, I might not would have ever started walking down my healing path. It was another blessing that those 12-Step people became my friends and let me talk about incest in those groups. Since then, I have seen groups that only want you to talk about how the alcoholism is affecting your life. They don't want to hear about the incest and other abuses that happened in my dysfunctional family.
In those early days, I could not separate what were the effects of the alcoholism and what were the effects of incest. They were too intertwined to be separated. I read somewhere that alcoholism is often present where incest happens. I never blamed the alcoholism for the incest because my dad was sober as much or more often than he was drunk when he sexually abused me.
I am very pleased to see the community of survivors and others who read my blog has continued to grow though the past 4 years. Since I started using Twitter and Facebook sometime in the past year and a half, the number of readers of my blog have more than doubled. I thank each of my readers for being a part of this growth and this community. I am very glad that you are all a part of my blog community. Thanks for being here.
Patricia
