5th Anniversary Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse

Presenting the 5th Year Anniversary of the Monthly Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse...I feel like we should have the sound of trumpets here!

Welcome!  I have enjoyed "hosting" the carnival this month because it gave me a sneak peek to reading all the wonderful posts and since I chose the topic I felt like some of them were just for me (yep, I'm self-absorbed like that, LOL!)  I also enjoyed some e-mail conversation with Tracie, who has taken over the overseeing of the Blog Carnival.  Thanks to Tracie!  And as it is the anniversary, a shout out to Marj, who started the Blog Carnival 5 yrs ago!  Thanks Marj!!!

If you enjoy these entries as much as I have, you can read past carnivals, and keep tabs on future carvivals by visiting the homepage for the carnival.

Healing and Therapy

Astrid presented How Support Groups Can Promote Healing at Multitude of Musings

Tracie shared Parenting Without Shame at From Tracie

shen presents Forgiveness posted at Reunited Selves, saying, "Forgiveness is something I never thought was possible, and for a long time I wouldn't even consider it. I've come a long way..."

SwordDanceWarrior presents Goddess bless yoga ? self care for survivors with vaginal injury posted at May We Dance Upon Their Graves, saying, "This post is about some successful strategies I found for dealing with ongoing bouts of vaginal/vulva pain and itching resulting from childhood rape."

MarjakaThriver presents Survivors Can Thrive!: How Does One Retrieve Repressed Memories of Abuse? posted at Survivors Can Thrive!, saying, "Did you know? June 19th marked the five-year anniversary of this blog carnival! Happy Anniversary, Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse! I am so grateful to Tracie for continuing the carnival and managing it forward into the future. And I am so grateful to all the bloggers who continue to participate, send in articles, read and leave comments supporting our awareness-rasing carnival. Thanks! This post was first published around the same time as the debut of our carnival in June of 2006. I'm so glad Leslie chose a healing theme for this month. This post of mine is about my decision to never let anyone abuse me again and about what prompted the beginning of my healing journey."

shen presents Family Meeting: Rocking Her to Sleep posted at Reunited Selves, saying, "This post is about accepting the most wounded part of me."

Ivory presents More than Six Days Seven Nights posted at Shades of Ivory.

Sarah123 presents Gifts From the Darkness posted at Writing.

Lynn C. Tolson presents Tolson 4 TEARS on Feelings posted at Beyond the Tears: A True Survivor's Story, saying, "Thank you for this forum for sharing!"

Kate presents A New Beginning posted at Kate1975's Blog.

Aftermath

shen presents *** Reunited Selves ***: Saturday Morning posted at Reunited Selves, saying, "The Rag Doll is the name of my most wounded inner child. She is the one who was there when the worst of the abuse occurred. She took it all and then hid along with her secret, in a dark corner of my mind. I'm just not beginning to get her out into the light."

Patricia Singleton presents After Effects Of Sexual Assault posted at Spiritual Journey of a Lightworker, saying, "Finally someone is doing research on the statistics of sexual assault and its effects upon its victims. Help me spread awareness that sexual assault of children and adults has to stop."

Poetry

Rick Belden presents resting posted at poetry, dreams, and the body, saying, "This late addition is a little poem on the self-care theme."

Tammy Taylor presents Here We Go: The Haunting posted at Here We Go.

shen presents *** Reunited Selves ***: A Turning Away posted at Reunited Selves.

Rick Belden presents face my ghosts posted at poetry, dreams, and the body.

Jenni presents My Corner of the Universe: From Tightropes to Wings posted at My Corner of the Universe.

Survivor Stories

Meggs Fitzwater presents The Whole Truth posted at Speaking Out, saying, ""I cannot WHOLLY heal until I'm done hiding the parts of the abuse that I don't want to see.""
 
Art Therapy
 
If you enjoyed this carnival, as I did, you might be interested in the Art Therapy Carnival that is hosted monthly at Paul's blog MindParts  (disclaimer, Paul didn't submit his blog for the carnival, I'm just taking some liberties...I'm farily sure he won't mind.  Right Paul?)