I started a new project New Year's day… one for victims, survivors, warriors.
It’s all about healing, and finding ourselves. It isnt about the laws, the criminals, the news, or the sex offender registry… its about US.
Fighting our pasts, and reinventing our futures.

I invite you to join me on Sadly Normal’s Interactive Discussion blog. Once daily, I will post a question, a thought, a quote, an inspiration, an idea… something to think about, talk about, elaborate on. Share.

I see questions on other lists, and I do borrow a few of them. I hope nobody minds. I really think the more we can open up discussion, and reach more survivors across all generations, races, countries... all boundaries... the better we will heal.

Sharing is huge for survivors. Let’s share what works and what didn’t work for our healing. Let’s share our successes and our accomplishments and our experiences.

I hope you all join me.

7th Edition of the Carnival Against Child Abuse November 30, 2006

(Note - this will be moved to the top of the blog each night. All new posts will be listed below.) 

December marks my turn to host the Carnival Against Child Abuse, 7th Edition, and boy am I excited. We will, of course, have the original categories:

Advocacy and Awareness
Aftermath
Healing & Therapy
In The News
Poetry
Survivor Stories.

I would like to add a few other categories for this month:

• Do you have any rituals or celebrations that you do/have done to mark a specific moment or turning point in your healing?
• Have you confronted your abuser?
• What inspires you to heal?
• What kind of activities or assignments have you done that have helped you in your healing?
• How do you deal with the holiday season?

I know its the holidays… but please feel free to submit your own articles or nominate articles from some of your other favorite writers!

I am also hoping to get articles from new submitters, so please dont be shy!

Submit articles here: Submissions *
 
* If you don’t have your own blog, but would still like to write an article, I will open up SadlyNormal for this month to Guest Writers. Submit your original article (please be specific with how you want to be credited - name, email address, etc) to franki@... and I will post them here. (This is for guest writers only, please use the submission link above for articles on your own blog or suggestions for other blogs. Thanks)

Deadline for submissions: Midnight, Dec 20th

Carnival will run: Saturday, December 23rd.

Please submit your articles ASAP!!!!