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  although
beautiful on its own, is tightly closed to protect itself from the
world around it. The beauty of the rosebud is but a mere glimpse of
what lies within. With proper care and nurturing and time, this bud
grows and blossoms into a full open rose, proudly displaying itself
to the world and raising it's petals to the sky, rejoicing in the
sun and rain and wind the petals were never before allowed to feel.
That same rosebud, without love and nurturing, withers in its place
on the vine.
But blossoming also takes time. As victims of abuse,
we are like a tightly closed rosebud - so much more beauty that we
can ever imagine lies within us, but it's remains unseen, lying
deeply dormant, as we protect it with our various defense mechanisms
that we've developed during our abuse - protected by our sheer will
to survive.
Our recovery, perhaps initiated by the
realization that we have been abused or the knowledge that life that
can - and should - be more, is the long road toward blossoming, the
transformation from this tightly closed rosebud to a beautiful open
bloom. It is often a long and painstaking process, but when allowed
the time to grow and change at our own rate and in the ways that we
need, a beautiful full bloom, open and confident and proud, will be
where the bud, full of fear, uncertainty, and sadness, once was.
My hope is that this website will serve as a little
extra water, sunshine, support, and love to help each Survivor along
toward full bloom.
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Where you are now! This is the
main page of the website. (You entered the site through the
Entry Page.) |
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Information and Statistics on
abuse. The information on this page is
fact-based. This page contains
links to each additional Information page, or
you can click on the links below to get to each extra
page. (Each link on this page opens in a separate
browser page for ease of site
surfing!)
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Supportive information such as
how to find help if you're being abused or have been
abused, how to help someone else whom you believe is
being abused, interesting words of support to help you along
your journey, etc. The information contained on this page is
support-based and may contain personal
suggestions or recommendations rather than just statistical
and "fact-based" information. |
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This page
is dedicated to victims' personal true-life stories of
abuse. **Please be aware that this page
contains graphic details and may be uncomfortable for some
visitors to read.** (You can submit
your story to us through our "Contact Us"
page.) |
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Original
poetry and fictional creative works are located on this page.
(Visitors can submit items to be placed on this page through
the "Contact Us" page.) |
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You may use this page to provide
feedback about the site or to submit your personal story,
poetry, recommended links or books, or to send us other
information or contact us for any other reason. We're
currently having some difficulty with our form server; we hope
to have it fixed soon, but in the meantime please email us
directly at Victoria@ThereIsLifeAfterAbuse.com. |
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This page
provides a compilation of recommended websites, books, music -
just about anything you can think of! (Additional
recommendations can be made through the "Contact Us"
page.) |
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Please
take a moment to let us know what you think of www.ThereIsLifeAfterAbuse.com
or to look over comments made by other visitors. We're
currently having some difficulty with our Guestbook; we hope
to have it fixed soon! |
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We offer
several abuse-based Bulletin Board Groups, owned by
ThereIsLifeAfterAbuse.com, where visitors can provide support
and information to each other. In addition, we offer
recommendations for other more specific subject-based groups
that are very helpful. Check back often to see the latest
posts! Each Bulletin Board will open in a SEPARATE
browser window. |
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ThereIsLifeAfterAbuse.com.
Please do not use or reproduce any of
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