Comments for Speak4Change http://speak4change.com Dedicated to ending child sexual abuse, through education and outreach Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:08:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Comment on Child Sexual Abuse Prevention & Education by Patrick http://speak4change.com/#comment-7434 Patrick Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:08:08 +0000 http://speak4change.com/speak4change/#comment-7434 I am a gay male survivor of childabuse and bullying. Please take two minutes to read my story and few my recent interview on abuse and bullying. Another young boy killed himself a few week’s due to gay bullying and we need to stop this. Tell me if you would be interested helping me to help other victims. Statistics show that most boys and men do not come forward about the abuse out of fear. I was one of those statistics but after years of depression and attempts with suicide I decided it was time to tell my story. Now I want to help others who suffer and show them there is hope check out my website at www.youandmecanstopbullies.com it gives full details on my media and speaking events. Below is my story of childhood abuse and bullying. I am a survivor and want to help others heal as I did from my trauma and show them there is hope. Please tell me if you can help. Bullying is a hot issue right now because kids are committing suicide at a high rate because of this matter. Would you like to be a part of putting an end to it? I hope so please take a minute and read my story. I’m writing to ask you if you would be interested in helping me on talking about my life and family bullying, specifically bullying of a younger brother by an older brother who was always ordered by his mother to watch over his younger brother. My older brother was also straight and sensed and hated the fact that I was gay. He knew it long before I knew it myself. I grew up in a devout tight-knit Catholic family on the northwest side of Chicago. My dad was Italian and my mom, Irish. I was the youngest of 5 kids: 3 boys and two girls. One Saturday when I was nine I was raped by a man in the bathroom of a department store. I was so traumatized by the experience that I ran home and hid in the closet of my room. When my brother found me there, he beat me up because I left him while he was supposed to be watching over me. But after being raped and threatened with death if I told, I was terrified and just ran home and hid. Of course, my brother didn’t know what had happened to me and I didn’t tell him. I didn’t tell anyone about it for 35 years. It was the first secret I ever kept from my mom, and it was a secret I kept from everyone. A few years or so later I was at a friend’s house and the neighborhood was suddenly surrounded by cops. The commotion scared my friend’s mom so she made us stay in the house. She turned on the television to try to find out what was going on, and it was then that I saw the face of the man who had raped me. It was John Wayne Gacy. He lived in my friend’s neighborhood, and they captured him that day. Recognizing him terrified me and brought back all the horror of the rape, but I still didn’t reveal my secret. After the rape, I was depressed and went into hiding. I sort of disappeared, sort of went to sleep. I became someone who just tried to please his family and friend. I just tried to be what they expected and wanted me to be. As I gradually realized I was gay, memories of the rape helped me bury my real self deeper. I spent the next 35 years of my life trying to be what my family and friends expected me to be. I hid so well, I didn’t even know who I was. During that time I married twice and had a daughter in one of my marriages. Both women I married were abusive. I was drawn to, attracted to abusive people. I wanted to love them, and I wanted them to love me, and though that was impossible, it didn’t stop me from trying. As I grew older and my passion for men increased I gradually, slowly, and secretly, sneaked into gay life. I met two good, beautiful men who loved me and wanted me to be with them, but I couldn’t come out. I couldn’t tell my family. I couldn’t be who I was making believe I was. Then, later, when I finally did come out, I chose, what else?-- a bully. He bullied me so much mentally that I tried to commit suicide twice. Using my credit cards, he buried me in debt for years after I finally left him. He also abused me physically. Then, mysteriously, after several years, I met an old friend I worked with. We became best friends. We talked and talked about our lives, which turned out to be similar, too similar. Gradually, I began to see and understand my life. I started writing my life story and as I wrote I saw more and more and so I kept revising my story. I had moved back home with my family after leaving my abusive first gay lover. One Sunday night, as I was about to leave my friend’s house and go home, my mom called and asked me to pick up a bottle of wine on the way home. She was playing cards with my abusive brother and other family members. Because I didn’t have identification on me, the scene at the liquor store became a disaster. I had to call my brother to come pick me up and buy the wine. For some reason, my bullying brother overreacted. When we got home, his anger just exploded. He called me a fag, told me he hated me, and threatened to kill me. I was so frightened and traumatized by it that I packed a bag, left the house, and called my friend to pick me up. When I got to his house, we talked. That experience with my abusive brother was so similar to my rape, even including the threat of death, that I finally woke up. I finally began to see everything differently. I felt myself begin to change, to be myself. I’ve written my story. I want to publish it, and my goal is to become a public speaker to help other people who have been bullied by older brothers…people who have experience what I experienced. I know I can help them. If they haven’t seen it, I want to make them see it. If they are still dealing with the effects of it, I want to help them get over it. There are too many people who experienced it, but don’t even know it happened. Sibling bullying seems so normal no one pays attention to it, no one recognizes it. My mom and dad thought my relationship with my bullying brother was normal. They had no idea of the pain I was suffering because I didn’t tell them. I was hiding, and I was a kid. Do consider helping me get my material in front of the right person or even turning into to a story so the public can hear my story and see there is a true chance for survival. The book proposal is completed and the manuscript is being reworked. In addition University of Illinois college professor Dorothy Espelage an expert on bullying has agreed to endorse book (please google her). I look forward to hearing back from you. E: dati_patrick@yahoo.com I am a gay male survivor of childabuse and bullying.
Please take two minutes to read my story and few my recent interview on abuse and bullying. Another young boy killed himself a few week’s due to gay bullying and we need to stop this. Tell me if you would be interested helping me to help other victims.

Statistics show that most boys and men do not come forward about the abuse out of fear. I was one of those statistics but after years of depression and attempts with suicide I decided it was time to tell my story. Now I want to help others who suffer and show them there is hope check out my website at http://www.youandmecanstopbullies.com it gives full details on my media and speaking events.

Below is my story of childhood abuse and bullying. I am a survivor and want to help others heal as I did from my trauma and show them there is hope. Please tell me if you can help.

Bullying is a hot issue right now because kids are committing suicide at a high rate because of this matter. Would you like to be a part of putting an end to it? I hope so please take a minute and read my story.

I’m writing to ask you if you would be interested in helping me on talking about my life and family bullying, specifically bullying of a younger brother by an older brother who was always ordered by his mother to watch over his younger brother. My older brother was also straight and sensed and hated the fact that I was gay. He knew it long before I knew it myself.

I grew up in a devout tight-knit Catholic family on the northwest side of Chicago. My dad was Italian and my mom, Irish. I was the youngest of 5 kids: 3 boys and two girls. One Saturday when I was nine I was raped by a man in the bathroom of a department store. I was so traumatized by the experience that I ran home and hid in the closet of my room. When my brother found me there, he beat me up because I left him while he was supposed to be watching over me. But after being raped and threatened with death if I told, I was terrified and just ran home and hid. Of course, my brother didn’t know what had happened to me and I didn’t tell him. I didn’t tell anyone about it for 35 years. It was the first secret I ever kept from my mom, and it was a secret I kept from everyone.

A few years or so later I was at a friend’s house and the neighborhood was suddenly surrounded by cops. The commotion scared my friend’s mom so she made us stay in the house. She turned on the television to try to find out what was going on, and it was then that I saw the face of the man who had raped me. It was John Wayne Gacy. He lived in my friend’s neighborhood, and they captured him that day. Recognizing him terrified me and brought back all the horror of the rape, but I still didn’t reveal my secret. After the rape, I was depressed and went into hiding. I sort of disappeared, sort of went to sleep. I became someone who just tried to please his family and friend. I just tried to be what they expected and wanted me to be.

As I gradually realized I was gay, memories of the rape helped me bury my real self deeper. I spent the next 35 years of my life trying to be what my family and friends expected me to be. I hid so well, I didn’t even know who I was. During that time I married twice and had a daughter in one of my marriages. Both women I married were abusive. I was drawn to, attracted to abusive people. I wanted to love them, and I wanted them to love me, and though that was impossible, it didn’t stop me from trying.

As I grew older and my passion for men increased I gradually, slowly, and secretly, sneaked into gay life. I met two good, beautiful men who loved me and wanted me to be with them, but I couldn’t come out. I couldn’t tell my family. I couldn’t be who I was making believe I was. Then, later, when I finally did come out, I chose, what else?– a bully. He bullied me so much mentally that I tried to commit suicide twice. Using my credit cards, he buried me in debt for years after I finally left him. He also abused me physically.

Then, mysteriously, after several years, I met an old friend I worked with. We became best friends. We talked and talked about our lives, which turned out to be similar, too similar. Gradually, I began to see and understand my life. I started writing my life story and as I wrote I saw more and more and so I kept revising my story.

I had moved back home with my family after leaving my abusive first gay lover. One Sunday night, as I was about to leave my friend’s house and go home, my mom called and asked me to pick up a bottle of wine on the way home. She was playing cards with my abusive brother and other family members. Because I didn’t have identification on me, the scene at the liquor store became a disaster. I had to call my brother to come pick me up and buy the wine. For some reason, my bullying brother overreacted. When we got home, his anger just exploded. He called me a fag, told me he hated me, and threatened to kill me. I was so frightened and traumatized by it that I packed a bag, left the house, and called my friend to pick me up. When I got to his house, we talked. That experience with my abusive brother was so similar to my rape, even including the threat of death, that I finally woke up. I finally began to see everything differently. I felt myself begin to change, to be myself.

I’ve written my story. I want to publish it, and my goal is to become a public speaker to help other people who have been bullied by older brothers…people who have experience what I experienced. I know I can help them. If they haven’t seen it, I want to make them see it. If they are still dealing with the effects of it, I want to help them get over it. There are too many people who experienced it, but don’t even know it happened. Sibling bullying seems so normal no one pays attention to it, no one recognizes it. My mom and dad thought my relationship with my bullying brother was normal. They had no idea of the pain I was suffering because I didn’t tell them. I was hiding, and I was a kid.

Do consider helping me get my material in front of the right person or even turning into to a story so the public can hear my story and see there is a true chance for survival. The book proposal is completed and the manuscript is being reworked. In addition University of Illinois college professor Dorothy Espelage an expert on bullying has agreed to endorse book (please google her). I look forward to hearing back from you.

E: dati_patrick@yahoo.com

]]> Comment on Child Sexual Abuse Prevention & Education by Marco Cota http://speak4change.com/#comment-4639 Marco Cota Fri, 17 Jun 2011 19:30:47 +0000 http://speak4change.com/speak4change/#comment-4639 Dear Katie, I want to Personaly thank you for this courageous letter and page. I am absolutely in 100 percent agreement with you on taking the stance of PREVENTION. I am personaly disturbed, but not blaming all the current after the fact anger and hatred when we hear of sex abuse cases. I kindly step in and take the position that a great number of cases could have been preventive if we had been doing instead of talking. We know the Predator exists, so we have to do something not talk. SO what I have done is written a non profit book, all proceeds go to abused children and Children International, this Book is about Prevention and is mostly directed at Men but anyone reading it will be able to get on the Wagon of Prevention. I am impressed here with what you have done, this is what we need at the highest priority. What most people like Nancy Grace and Geraldo do not know is that when we become angery and filled with hate, the Predators are laughing, made to feel superior, and they are challenged to do more crimes. It is time we become Progressive and fight crime intelligently so we can control the Predator and stop the Predator from controlling us. Gracias!! Marco Cota Predator Down Dear Katie, I want to Personaly thank you for this courageous letter and page. I am absolutely in 100 percent agreement with you on taking the stance of PREVENTION. I am personaly disturbed, but not blaming all the current after the fact anger and hatred when we hear of sex abuse cases. I kindly step in and take the position that a great number of cases could have been preventive if we had been doing instead of talking. We know the Predator exists, so we have to do something not talk.
SO what I have done is written a non profit book, all proceeds go to abused children and Children International, this Book is about Prevention and is mostly directed at Men but anyone reading it will be able to get on the Wagon of Prevention.
I am impressed here with what you have done, this is what we need at the highest priority. What most people like Nancy Grace and Geraldo do not know is that when we become angery and filled with hate, the Predators are laughing, made to feel superior, and they are challenged to do more crimes. It is time we become Progressive and fight crime intelligently so we can control the Predator and stop the Predator from controlling us. Gracias!! Marco Cota Predator Down

]]> Comment on Child Sexual Abuse Prevention & Education by Marco Cota http://speak4change.com/#comment-4377 Marco Cota Tue, 07 Jun 2011 01:44:41 +0000 http://speak4change.com/speak4change/#comment-4377 I have been a therapist since 1975 and have one very crucial concern. Before I give my speel I am 100 percent convinced that the only way to help prevent sex abuse is by high awareness and much better diligence in protecting our children. Stiff laws and after the fact anger does not help prevent abuse. I do agree offenders need permanent incarceration. I have never had a more stronger belief in that we Americans have failed at protecting our children due to the ease of life in the USA. We cannot believe that our own child someday would be sexually abused. We cannot believe that Predators exist in such numbers as they really do here in the USA. With this thinking we have become lax in protecting our children at the parental level. By no means do I blame the parent for their child being abused. The facts are that we know the Predator is in every walk of life but we do not take it as seriously as we should beforehand. We do become very vindictive and angry AFTER the fact a child has been abused. Its time we realize we have an ugly enemy in front of us that we have to fight everyday by prevention awareness. Children currently do not turn in their abuser immediately. Children are learners and it is okay to inform them of inappropriate behavior beforehand. These educated aware children would react, turn in the abuser immediately. It is Okay to educate children of sex abuse and what to report. You have to ask, what is better, a permanently damaged child, or a captured predator? Finally mothers need to be much more diligent in their protection responsibilty, even if they have to be insultingly protective to others. My case studies show that most abused children were left alone and not properly supervised. The mothers had been overly trusting. I am Marco Cota author of Predator Down, a sex abuse prevention book for Men. I have been a therapist since 1975 and have one very crucial concern. Before I give my speel I am 100 percent convinced that the only way to help prevent sex abuse is by high awareness and much better diligence in protecting our children. Stiff laws and after the fact anger does not help prevent abuse. I do agree offenders need permanent incarceration.
I have never had a more stronger belief in that we Americans have failed at protecting our children due to the ease of life in the USA. We cannot believe that our own child someday would be sexually abused. We cannot believe that Predators exist in such numbers as they really do here in the USA. With this thinking we have become lax in protecting our children at the parental level. By no means do I blame the parent for their child being abused. The facts are that we know the Predator is in every walk of life but we do not take it as seriously as we should beforehand. We do become very vindictive and angry AFTER the fact a child has been abused. Its time we realize we have an ugly enemy in front of us that we have to fight everyday by prevention awareness.
Children currently do not turn in their abuser immediately. Children are learners and it is okay to inform them of inappropriate behavior beforehand. These educated aware children would react, turn in the abuser immediately. It is Okay to educate children of sex abuse and what to report. You have to ask, what is better, a permanently damaged child, or a captured predator?
Finally mothers need to be much more diligent in their protection responsibilty, even if they have to be insultingly protective to others. My case studies show that most abused children were left alone and not properly supervised. The mothers had been overly trusting.

I am Marco Cota author of Predator Down, a sex abuse prevention book for Men.

]]> Comment on Child Sexual Abuse Prevention & Education by Edward http://speak4change.com/#comment-196 Edward Wed, 03 Nov 2010 05:24:21 +0000 http://speak4change.com/speak4change/#comment-196 I just followed you on Twitter called from mine "Road to Recovery" and wanted to introduce myself. I am a survivor of Sexual, Physical and Mental abuse. I have a blog where I discuss what and where I am on my path. I would love for you to look at it and share your comments. I even signed up with another site to become a speaker. Please take a moment and view it. http://heavyroadtorecovery.blogspot.com Thank You Edward I just followed you on Twitter called from mine “Road to Recovery” and wanted to introduce myself. I am a survivor of Sexual, Physical and Mental abuse. I have a blog where I discuss what and where I am on my path. I would love for you to look at it and share your comments. I even signed up with another site to become a speaker. Please take a moment and view it.

http://heavyroadtorecovery.blogspot.com

Thank You
Edward

]]> Comment on Child Sexual Abuse Prevention & Education by Erin Merryn http://speak4change.com/#comment-37 Erin Merryn Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:14:47 +0000 http://speak4change.com/speak4change/#comment-37 Keep up the great work and spreading awareness! The more people on board the better! :) Erin Merryn Keep up the great work and spreading awareness! The more people on board the better! :)

Erin Merryn

]]> Comment on Child Sexual Abuse Prevention & Education by Let Go...Let Peace Come In http://speak4change.com/#comment-12 Let Go...Let Peace Come In Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:22:07 +0000 http://speak4change.com/speak4change/#comment-12 Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Gretchen Paules and I am the Administrative Director for a newly formed nonprofit called the Let Go...Let Peace Come In Foundation. Our mission at LGLPCI is to help heal and support adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse worldwide. We are actively seeking adult survivors who would be willing to post their childhood photo & caption, their story, or their creative expressions to our website www.letgoletpeacecomein.org. We also have a youtube video that can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4PDC03Gl2k. By uniting survivors from around the globe we hope to provide a stronger and more powerful voice to those survivors who have not yet found the courage to speak out or have been cast aside with disbelief. Through increased awareness I am writing to you today to ask you to please consider posting to our website. It is through the support of courageous survivors like you that we will succeed in our effort to help one survivor at a time. If you have any questions please feel free to e-mail me directly at gretchen@letgoletpeacecomein.org. Together we can; together we should; together we NEED to stand up and be counted. Warmest Regards, Gretchen Paules Administrative Director Let Go...Let Peace Come In Foundation 630 W. Germantown Pike, Suite 180 Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462 Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Gretchen Paules and I am the Administrative Director for a newly formed nonprofit called the Let Go…Let Peace Come In Foundation. Our mission at LGLPCI is to help heal and support adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse worldwide. We are actively seeking adult survivors who would be willing to post their childhood photo & caption, their story, or their creative expressions to our website http://www.letgoletpeacecomein.org. We also have a youtube video that can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4PDC03Gl2k. By uniting survivors from around the globe we hope to provide a stronger and more powerful voice to those survivors who have not yet found the courage to speak out or have been cast aside with disbelief. Through increased awareness

I am writing to you today to ask you to please consider posting to our website. It is through the support of courageous survivors like you that we will succeed in our effort to help one survivor at a time. If you have any questions please feel free to e-mail me directly at gretchen@letgoletpeacecomein.org. Together we can; together we should; together we NEED to stand up and be counted.

Warmest Regards,
Gretchen Paules
Administrative Director
Let Go…Let Peace Come In Foundation
630 W. Germantown Pike, Suite 180
Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462

]]> Comment on About by Svava http://speak4change.com/about-2/#comment-3 Svava Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:30:13 +0000 http://speak4change.com/?page_id=127#comment-3 Dear Diane, Thank you for thinking of me. My bday is actually august 30th. How are you? How are things? I am now working with Diane and TAALK and getting ready to start a San Diego chapter. In short, duplicating the work I did in Iceland. Take good care, Love, Svava Dear Diane,
Thank you for thinking of me. My bday is actually august 30th.
How are you? How are things?
I am now working with Diane and TAALK and getting ready to start a San Diego chapter. In short, duplicating the work I did in Iceland.
Take good care,
Love,
Svava

]]> Comment on About by Diane Hansen http://speak4change.com/about-2/#comment-2 Diane Hansen Tue, 26 May 2009 17:10:30 +0000 http://speak4change.com/?page_id=127#comment-2 Hi Svava, The Plaxo network said it was your birthday May 25...HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! I hope all is well with you & your family. Thinking of you. Peace & Blessings, Love Always, Diane Hansen Hi Svava,

The Plaxo network said it was your birthday May 25…HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

I hope all is well with you & your family.

Thinking of you.

Peace & Blessings,

Love Always,
Diane Hansen

]]> Comment on Child Sexual Abuse Prevention & Education by Anita E. wladichuk http://speak4change.com/#comment-11 Anita E. wladichuk Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:06:32 +0000 http://speak4change.com/speak4change/#comment-11 I wrote and published a book on December 1, 2005 titled "Anastasia and The Ghostly Owl (The Choice Was Hers!)." This story is about hope, overcoming obstacles, and making choices in the face of adversity. More concretely, it is about child abuse and how the protagonist, a young girl named Anastasia, comes to terms with it. The purpose of this story is to reach out to as many people as possible, to present hope, to inspire, and to encourage those who have been unfortunate to have experienced unfair adversity in their life. I appear to have been successful in that goal. Here are some excerpts from reviews . . . This is a moving story about one girl’s journey to find feelings of self-esteem and self-worth. — Jill Zimmerman Rutledge, LCSW, author of Dealing With The Stuff That Makes Life Tough: The Ten Things That Stress Girls Out and How To Cope With Them This short but potent tale is indeed the story of a young girl, Anastasia's, metamorphosis out of the smothering and woundedness caused by cruelty and abuse. ... Perhaps this unique story will touch many lives ... Perhaps this story will bring one person into a life of more fun and less pain! — Review by Viviane Crystal, Member of Reviewers International Organization ... I couldn’t put the book down until I completely finished it on the back cover. It is so down to earth, so well versed I could feel times that I was “Anastasia.” Reading the words, but the brain saying “you’ve been there” too. — Emily Schuessler, Customer, Ontario "Anastasia and the Ghostly Owl (The Choice Was Hers!)" is a book with a purpose, namely to inspire readers to overcome whatever challenges they may face ... It's an unusual book ... this book is meant to serve as a blinking arrow penetrating the darkness to point you toward the light that lies at the end of your own personal tunnel, and I think it succeeds very well in doing just that. — Daniel Jolley, one of Amazon.com's Top 50 Reviewers "Anastasia and The Ghostly Owl" is about hope and overcoming obstacles that you will read and re-read, and will be a classic treasured by generations to come. — Florence Starr, Customer, and Founder of The Home For The Aged in Fernie, BC "'Who am I?' is a question that many people of many ages ask - it is the first question of the story. Anastasia asked this of herself over and over; of course, life is properly a process of discovery, and this can take place at different times and in different ways for each individual. ... This book shows a creative spark and an intense desire to share with others. ... this is Wladichuk's first book ... A good premier effort. — FrKurt Messick, one of Amazon.com's Top 50 Reviewers I appreciated the simplicity of this very complex story … I read the book 3 times within a 24 hour period and each time I was forced outside my comfort zone and caused to remember and experience again my own journey to self-actualization. … Thank you for sharing this story with me. — Tom Jones, Customer who also put his review on Amazon Child abuse, of course, is not restricted to any one particular segment of society, so I am contacting various groups and organizations with the intention of inspiring others who have suffered unfair adversity. Please take a moment to visit my website at www.ghostlyowl.com to read excerpts from "Anastasia and The Ghostly Owl (The Choice Was Hers!)" and to see what reviewers and customers are saying about my book. This is the only book that is available which does not describe the horrific details of verbal, physical, or sexual abuse. If you are looking for a book that does not do this, then "Anastasia and The Ghostly Owl (The Choice Was Hers!)” is the book for you! Thank you so much for your assistance. Sincerely Anita E. Wladichuk, Author "Anastasia and The Ghostly Owl (The Choice Was Hers!)" Ghostly Owl Publishing Company Suite 479, 104-1015 Columbia Street New Westminster, BC V3M 6V3 Canada Email: anastasia@ghostlyowl.com Website: http://www.ghostlyowl.com I wrote and published a book on December 1, 2005 titled “Anastasia and The Ghostly Owl (The Choice Was Hers!).” This story is about hope, overcoming obstacles, and making choices in the face of adversity. More concretely, it is about child abuse and how the protagonist, a young girl named Anastasia, comes to terms with it.

The purpose of this story is to reach out to as many people as possible, to present hope, to inspire, and to encourage those who have been unfortunate to have experienced unfair adversity in their life. I appear to have been successful in that goal. Here are some excerpts from reviews . . .

This is a moving story about one girl’s journey to find feelings of self-esteem and self-worth.
— Jill Zimmerman Rutledge, LCSW, author of Dealing With The Stuff That Makes Life Tough: The Ten Things That Stress Girls Out and How To Cope With Them

This short but potent tale is indeed the story of a young girl, Anastasia’s, metamorphosis out of the smothering and woundedness caused by cruelty and abuse. … Perhaps this unique story will touch many lives … Perhaps this story will bring one person into a life of more fun and less pain!
— Review by Viviane Crystal, Member of Reviewers International Organization

… I couldn’t put the book down until I completely finished it on the back cover. It is so down to earth, so well versed I could feel times that I was “Anastasia.” Reading the words, but the brain saying “you’ve been there” too.
— Emily Schuessler, Customer, Ontario

“Anastasia and the Ghostly Owl (The Choice Was Hers!)” is a book with a purpose, namely to inspire readers to overcome whatever challenges they may face … It’s an unusual book … this book is meant to serve as a blinking arrow penetrating the darkness to point you toward the light that lies at the end of your own personal tunnel, and I think it succeeds very well in doing just that.
— Daniel Jolley, one of Amazon.com’s Top 50 Reviewers

“Anastasia and The Ghostly Owl” is about hope and overcoming obstacles that you will read and re-read, and will be a classic treasured by generations to come.
— Florence Starr, Customer, and Founder of The Home For The Aged in Fernie, BC

“‘Who am I?’ is a question that many people of many ages ask – it is the first question of the story. Anastasia asked this of herself over and over; of course, life is properly a process of discovery, and this can take place at different times and in different ways for each individual. … This book shows a creative spark and an intense desire to share with others. … this is Wladichuk’s first book … A good premier effort.
— FrKurt Messick, one of Amazon.com’s Top 50 Reviewers

I appreciated the simplicity of this very complex story … I read the book 3 times within a 24 hour period and each time I was forced outside my comfort zone and caused to remember and experience again my own journey to self-actualization. … Thank you for sharing this story with me.

— Tom Jones, Customer who also put his review on Amazon

Child abuse, of course, is not restricted to any one particular segment of society, so I am contacting various groups and organizations with the intention of inspiring others who have suffered unfair adversity. Please take a moment to visit my website at http://www.ghostlyowl.com to read excerpts from “Anastasia and The Ghostly Owl (The Choice Was Hers!)” and to see what reviewers and customers are saying about my book.

This is the only book that is available which does not describe the horrific details of verbal, physical, or sexual abuse. If you are looking for a book that does not do this, then “Anastasia and The Ghostly Owl (The Choice Was Hers!)” is the book for you!

Thank you so much for your assistance.

Sincerely

Anita E. Wladichuk, Author

“Anastasia and The Ghostly Owl (The Choice Was Hers!)”

Ghostly Owl Publishing Company

Suite 479, 104-1015 Columbia Street

New Westminster, BC V3M 6V3

Canada

Email: anastasia@ghostlyowl.com

Website: http://www.ghostlyowl.com

]]> Comment on Child Sexual Abuse Prevention & Education by sarah http://speak4change.com/#comment-10 sarah Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:44:10 +0000 http://speak4change.com/speak4change/#comment-10 I can't wait to explore this blog! I can’t wait to explore this blog!

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