Comments for Speak4Change http://speak4change.com Dedicated to ending child sexual abuse, through education and outreach Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:14:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 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!

]]> Comment on Child Sexual Abuse Prevention & Education by Mary Ann Ford http://speak4change.com/#comment-9 Mary Ann Ford Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:29:03 +0000 http://speak4change.com/speak4change/#comment-9 Hi Svava, I am so impressed with the work that you have done to prevent child sexual abuse and am thrilled and honored to be able to contribute a small amount to further the cause of spreading the word. As a mother of a 9 year old daughter and an aunt to an 8 year old nephew, I am astounded by the statistics that 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys will be sexually abused by the age of 18! We all need to do what we can to stop this epidemic, and I hope folks who read your story will be inspired to donate to the cause- with money, time or words. We can all- at the very least- speak out and make it known that we will not stand for this assault on our kids- by anyone- even those closest to them!!) Your positive and hopeful attitude is a testament to the hard work that you have done to recover. You are truly a beacon of light on a very dark subject and I am certain that your efforts are not only saving children, but changing the world. All the best, Mary Ann Hi Svava,

I am so impressed with the work that you have done to prevent child sexual abuse and am thrilled and honored to be able to contribute a small amount to further the cause of spreading the word.

As a mother of a 9 year old daughter and an aunt to an 8 year old nephew, I am astounded by the statistics that 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys will be sexually abused by the age of 18! We all need to do what we can to stop this epidemic, and I hope folks who read your story will be inspired to donate to the cause- with money, time or words. We can all- at the very least- speak out and make it known that we will not stand for this assault on our kids- by anyone- even those closest to them!!)

Your positive and hopeful attitude is a testament to the hard work that you have done to recover. You are truly a beacon of light on a very dark subject and I am certain that your efforts are not only saving children, but changing the world.

All the best,
Mary Ann

]]> Comment on Child Sexual Abuse Prevention & Education by Mike Skinner http://speak4change.com/#comment-8 Mike Skinner Tue, 29 May 2007 23:11:03 +0000 http://speak4change.com/speak4change/#comment-8 Hello Svava, Well done and well said with all that you have posted at your website - good for you and good for the world!!! Please visit www.mskinnermusic.com You will see that we are on the same page in so many respects to our speaking out. take care, Mike Hello Svava,

Well done and well said with all that you have posted at your website – good for you and good for the world!!! Please visit http://www.mskinnermusic.com You will see that we are on the same page in so many respects to our speaking out.

take care, Mike

]]> Comment on Courageous action to break the silence! by Svava http://speak4change.com/blogging/courageous-action-to-break-the-silence/#comment-40 Svava Tue, 08 May 2007 03:32:04 +0000 http://speak4change.com/2007/04/28/courageous-action-to-break-the-silence/#comment-40 Hi, Yes speaking about it is hard but important to do. That is how we heal. Yes feel free, like I said I got it from Oprah. Thanks for checking in! Hi,

Yes speaking about it is hard but important to do. That is how we heal.

Yes feel free, like I said I got it from Oprah. Thanks for checking in!

]]> Comment on Courageous action to break the silence! by qnaoflife http://speak4change.com/blogging/courageous-action-to-break-the-silence/#comment-39 qnaoflife Tue, 08 May 2007 03:12:28 +0000 http://speak4change.com/2007/04/28/courageous-action-to-break-the-silence/#comment-39 hey there. Yeah, it is hard to speak up about the abuse and shame we have to endure when we are little and so helpless. anyway, I love that quote, can I copy it to my website? hey there.
Yeah, it is hard to speak up about the abuse and shame we have to endure when we are little and so helpless.

anyway, I love that quote, can I copy it to my website?

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