Survivors Can Thrive Hosts Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse: Four-Year Anniversary Edition

Marj aka Thriver is hosting the Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse:  Four-Year Anniversary Edition on her blog Survivors Can Thrive! this month.  She posted it on June 19 at the following link:

http://survivorscanthrive.blogspot.com/2010/06/blog-carnival-against-child-abuse-four.html 

Congratulations on the four-year anniversary Marj.  You always do such a great job of hosting and running the Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse each month.  Thank you.  I appreciate the work that you do to keep this running.  I know it means a great deal to all of the survivors who read it and those who participate.  I don't know if I will ever get the technical skills to host one myself but I can support you and the Blog Carnival by posting articles to announce it each month to my readers.

Here is the Trigger Warning that Marj posted at the beginning of the post.
"Trigger Warning:  Understandably, the subject of child abuse can be disturbing.  Please exercise appropriate self-care when reading the following posts.  We all want to advocate and raise awareness, but remember to keep yourself safe!"  

If I counted correctly, there are 27 posts included in this month's Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse.  I hope that you will join me in going to the above link and taking the time to read each of the posts.  Feel free to leave a comment and let each person know what you think and feel about their posts about child abuse. 

This month, because of all of the grieving that I have been going through with my Inner Child Letters Series, I have been going back and reading some of the posts that I wrote on grieving in the three years that I have been blogging.  The post that I submitted to the Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse is called "Acknowledging Your Grief And Releasing It."  You will find it listed with all of the others at the following link to Survivors Can Thrive! :

http://survivorscanthrive.blogspot.com/2010/06/blog-carnival-against-child-abuse-four.html 

I have been blogging for three years as of June 1, 2010.  It seems like such a long time when really it isn't.  I thank you, my readers, for coming along and sharing my journey with me.  Now go read this month's Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse:  Four-Year Anniversary Edition.  Welcome to the new bloggers who are posting for the first time.  I look forward to getting to know you through your writing.
Patricia

 

Survivors Can Thrive! Mini Carnival: Holiday Survival Tips For Survivors

Marj aka Thriver over at her blog Survivors Can Thrive! posted just before Christmas the following article "Mini Carnival: Holiday Survival Tips for Survivors." None of us had the time to host a full Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse with the Christmas holidays going on in December. At the last minute, Marj decided to post this "Mini Carnival" instead.

Marj attributes me with the "spark that motivated this mini carnival" idea. Marj, I am glad that you used my blog article as inspiration for this. Thanks for being a wonderful host for Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse.

Follow me to Marj aka Thriver's blog Survivors Can Thrive! to read her "Mini Carnival: Holiday Survivor Tips for Survivors." Here is the link:

http://survivorscanthrive.blogspot.com/2009/12/mini-carnival-holiday-survival-tips-for.html

Blessings and love to all. Hope you all had a glorious Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Patricia

Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse: November, 2009

November 19 was World Day for the Prevention of Child Abuse. It was also the day that Marj aka Thriver posted the "Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse: November, 2009" on her blog Survivors Can Thrive. My previous article "Calm" is featured in this Blog Carnival along with 34 other articles.

Marj aka Thriver is the organizer as well as this month's host for the Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse. I very much appreciate the work and time that Marj puts into running this Blog Carnival.

You can find this month's "Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse: November, 2009" at the following link:

http://survivorscanthrive.blogspot.com/2009/11/blog-carnival-against-child-abuse.html

I hope that you will follow me to this link and read all of the articles that were submitted this month. If you are an abuse survivor, I warn you that some of the articles may be triggering for you. Marj has the following words at the beginning of the article:

"TRIGGER WARNING Child Abuse is an horrific reality in our world today. Understandably, reading articles about the abuse of children can be triggering. Please take appropriate care while perusing the carnival."

Prevention of child abuse is the topic for this month's Carnival. Thank you Marj for hosting this month's Carnival.
Patricia

May Carnival Against Child Abuse

Marj over at "Survivors Can Thrive" has posted the May Carnival Against Child Abuse. There are some very informative articles there written by child abuse survivors like myself. If you are interested in learning more about child abuse, how to prevent it from happening to the next generation of children, or how child abuse can continue to affect your adult life, then go on over to "Survivors Can Thrive" at the following link:
http://survivorscanthrive.blogspot.com/2009/05/remembering-veteran-survivors.html

Here is the word of caution that Marj adds at the beginning of the Carnival articles:
"Trigger Warning: Keep yourself safe as you read. Understandably, child abuse can be a very triggering subject."

The reason for this warning is that most of us who write the articles and some of us who read the articles are Child Abuse Survivors. Certain stories can trigger fear, panic, anger, and even flashbacks in Survivors.

I had some triggers of my own set off over the past few weeks. I have had to deal with a sudden irrational fear of having strangers come into my home. Most of the time I am ok with my husband inviting interesting people that he has met and even some friends into our home. Afterall, he lives here too. I have a few of my friends of my own who have open invitations and come without advance notice.

Because of me writing the recent articles on incest and reading the blogs of other survivors, I have found myself becoming fearful over the past few weeks. That surprised me. I didn't expect it. I told my husband that I know the fear is irrational and I still feel it. I am working through it and telling my husband about it was the first step. As a survivor, I need to feel safe in my own home because as a child, my home wasn't a safe place to be.
Patricia