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Archive for the abuse recovery Category

Alan Smith - Traumatic Incident Reduction

February 15, 2009 by Victor Volkman.

Alan E. Smith author of UnBreak Your Health: The Complete Guide to Complementary & Alternative Therapies interviews Marian Volkman, President of the Traumatic Incident Reduction Association, on September 25, 2008. She is also a trainer who has taught Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) workshops to therapists, ministers, and peer counselors all over the world including Russia, England, Canada, Japan, and Australia. In addition to being an instruction, she is also an accomplished practitioner with four decades of expeience as well as being an author on the subject of TIR and Metapsychology..

They say you can’t “unbreak the mirror”, meaning the damage is done. In the world of healthcare the analogy would be mainstream medicine treating the symptoms of the broken mirror with drugs to try and glue it back together. To UnBreak Your Health™ means discovering the real source of the problem and treating all of it. In this book, you’ll find information new and old and begin to see patterns and concepts between therapies that are consistent through thousands of years and across civilizations around the world.

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Heyward Bruce Ewart III - “A Man’s Account: Growing up with Abuse”

October 23, 2008 by Victor Volkman.

Authors Airwaves is pleased to present Heyward Bruce Ewart, III, PhD reading “A Man’s Account” from his new book AM I BAD? Recovering From Abuse. Compared to domestic violence against women, the of-fense applied to men is rare but yet not absent. Male victims of domestic abuse are rarely attacked physically; instead, they are assaulted verbally and mentally in the partnership. In my practice I have treated both men and women, although in separate groups. Because the same dynamics apply for men; that is, child abuse leading to later abuse, it is worth devoting this account of one single case, because it is indeed an excellent example of the principles so far discussed.David, now in his 60s, still has monthly or more frequent dreams of conquering his father, who has been deceased for nearly 30 years. He remembers as a boy watching his father proudly weave two leather dog leashes together for training the family pet, a pedigree Boxer. At the end of the two woven leashes, he attached a hard, wrapped ball, somewhat larger than a golf ball, which he formed by tightly winding a long, leather thong. He left some remaining strips dangling loose off the end of the ball to resemble a cat-of-nine-tails. Even at his young age, the boy wondered why such a device would be needed to train a dog.Not long after the project was complete, David learned that the weapon was for him. He had been accused, at age 7, of talking back to a teacher, something he had not done, as he tried repeatedly to explain to his parents. But his father took out that odd weapon. The man remembers the horror of not being able to get away, incapable of standing, trying to scurry under the kitchen sink, only to be yanked straight in the air by one arm so the father could get another series of blows in. On and on it went, until the boy believed it would continue until he was dead.

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If you were abused or neglected as a child, chances are that you have been your whole life, whether you are a man, a woman, or a teen. Child abuse so mangles the personality that the victim unconsciously attracts abusers throughout the life cycle. Lies about yourself were planted deep in your mind by the abuse, and you still believe them. They are crippling your life! Do you have any of these signs?

You have symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
You feel like a second-class citizen.
Nobody understands: they ask, “Why can’t you get over it?”
You have escaped one abuser only to end up with another.

Until you understand exactly what the abuse did to you, you cannot get free. You can stay in therapy your whole life and never get a clue. OR you can unravel the mysteries once and for all and bring everything to light by reading AM I BAD? Recovering from Abuse. A great resource for victims, therapists, and group work.

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Anya Achtenberg - Live at University of Minnesota

September 25, 2008 by Victor Volkman.

On September 17th, 2008 Anya Achtenberg gave a reading from her new book The Stories of Devil-Girl as well as excerpts from other pieces of her work at the University of Minnesota Bookstore. We hope you will enjoy this rare chance to listen to the author read her own work on Authors Airwaves.

Devil-Girl is a storyteller smaller than a stain and larger than life, a mythic figure roaming the globe. Born into Brooklyn housing projects and the nightmares of her immigrant family, she becomes a runaway in the human marketplace of the streets of New York. Accompanied by her sense of outrage and sense of humor, ghosts of the ancestors and her prophetic vision, she moves from silence through rage into deep alliance with the marginalized.”Devil-Girl’s stories are all of our stories, all of the ‘discarded and demonized’, all of us who have had to fight to survive, to fight to tell our truths. Achtenberg’s wise survivor, Devil-Girl, is witness and seer, and her words are sustenance. There is much pain in this book, much wisdom, and a kind of beauty that sears itself into memory, a fierce beauty that is as necessary as air. Read this book.”
-Lisa D. Chave, Author of Destruction Bay; In An Angry Season

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Marjorie McKinnon - REPAIR Your Life

September 14, 2008 by Victor Volkman.

Authors Airwaves presents a special reading by Marjorie McKinnon from her new book, REPAIR Your Life: A Program for Recovery from Incest and Childhood Sexual Abuse. Specifically, she reads from Chapter 3, “Recognition” which outlines key personality traits and behaviors that are characteristic of adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. If you or someone in your life is a survivor, you owe it to yourself to check out this informative audio program.

R.E.P.A.I.R. is a Six-Stage Program for abuse survivors that will transform your life forever!• Recognize and accept your adult problems stemming from childhood sexual abuse.
• Enter into a commitment to transform your life.
• Process your issues with tools and techniques that will enable you to become healthy.
• Awareness to discover reality as you gather and ssemble the pieces of the broken puzzle your life became.
• Insight into the complete picture helps you begin to return to what you were prior to being sexually violated.
• Rhythm recovers the natural rhythm you had before the incest happened, the blueprint that is the essence of your true nature, becoming who you really are.

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Marian K. Volkman - Healing Children From Trauma

March 2, 2008 by Victor Volkman.

Join us for a very special Authors Airwaves as Juanita Watson from Inside Scoop Live interviews Marian K. Volkman on how children can heal from trauma and how we as caregivers, therapists, and educators can help. Marian Volkman has over thirty years of experience in trauma reduction and personal growth work. She leads Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) and Metapsychology workshops throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. She also sees individual clients in Ann Arbor, where she resides. She is the author of “Life Skills: Improve the Quality of Your Life with Metapsychology. Marian is the editor of Children and Traumatic Incident Reduction: Creative and Cognitive approaches and author of Life Skills: Improve the Quality of Your Life.

What if we could resolve childhood trauma before years go by and these effects solidify in body and mind?In a perfect world, we’d like to be able to shield children from hurt and harm. In the real world, children, even relatively fortunate ones, may experience accidents, injury, illness, and loss of loved ones. Children unfortunate enough to live in unsafe environments live through abuse, neglect, and threats to their well-being and even their life.

What if we could resolve childhood trauma fully, gently, and completely while the child is still young?

We Can. Read Children and Traumatic Incident Reduction and find out how!

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Nancy Oelklaus - Eye of The Needle: A tool for difficult conversations

January 22, 2008 by Victor Volkman.

We proudly present an “Eye of The Needle”, an excerpt from Nancy Oelklaus address to the International Association of Business Communicators in Austin on 1/8/08. This is a powerful tool for approaching the difficult conversations in your life.Executive Coach Dr. Nancy Oelklaus will be leading a four-month series for personal transformation in Quad 3B at Riverbend Church, 4214 Capital of Texas Highway in Austin, on the fourth Saturday of each month, January-April, from 1:30-4:00 p.m. The group size is limited to 10 people, and the monthly fee is $85.
Here are the topics for each session:

Dissolve Barriers: Forgive the actions and behaviors of the past, both yours and others.
Imagine: With former barriers dissolved, from the heart, imagine the life you truly want to live in relationship with God, yourself, and others.
Co-create: Create the reality you want to live in.
Sustain: Establish daily practices to sustain the change youve made.To enroll, e-mail Nancy@TheSuccessAccelerator.com.
For more information, call 512-431-4946.

Journey From Head to Heart Is…

a toolkit for those who are exhausted from solving never-ending problems, working harder and harder and not arriving at the destination where they truly want to be

A Map for how to make the journey from head to heart and then integrate the two so that the power of ego is diminished and the Authentic Self can emerge to live and work from the power of the human spirit.

A Reference book that may be used for many years to come as the reader meets life’s challenges with success that satisfies both the head and the heart.

Journey from Head to Heart is exactly that, integrating logic, reason, emotion, spirituality, Christianity, science, and ancient wisdom from a variety of sources to create a recipe for wholeness. The tools and processes are designed for people who are a little wary of “touchy-feely” or “New Age” approaches.

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Peggy Fisher and Sylvia Dickey Smith - Finding Transformation in a Marital Crisis

July 29, 2007 by sysop.

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Peggy M. Fisher earned her M.A. from Teachers College, Columbia University. She has held various professional careers as a registered nurse, army officer, teacher and guidance counselor. Now retired, she has finally accepted her journey as a writer. She is the author of Lifting Voices: Voices of the Collective Struggle. Her poems have appeared in several anthologies including Commemorating Excellence: the 1998 Presidential Awards. Peggy’s book, Search Lights For My Soul, placed second in the Self-help category in the Reader Views Reviewers Choice Award 2007. She is one of the featured authors in an anthology of essays, The Story That Must Be Told, to be published by Loving Healing Press in June 2007. Peggy Fisher has completed a memoir, tentatively titled, Journey to the Jewels Within. Peggy M. Fisher has attended many workshops and conferences over the years including the Hurston-Wright Foundation, Goucher College, The Philadelphia Black Writers’ Conferences, the New Jersey Council of the Arts Writers and Arts Programs and The International Women’s Writing Guild Conferences. In July 2003, Fisher completed the Amherst Writer and Artists Creative Writing Workshop Leadership course of study. This Spring she participated in poetry workshops led by Cave Canem Foundation fellows

Peggy M. Fisher has presented workshops in writing for the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers at their annual conference for the past three years. She continues her commitment to young people by meeting with them to talk about their needs as she completes a book on coping for teens. Peggy M. Fisher is available for readings as well as workshops.
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It’s been said that Sylvia Dickey Smith sees everything and misses nothing. She was born and reared in exotic southeast Texas, the land of Cajuns, cowboys, pirates and Paleo-Indians. She entered this world backwards—feet first, and left-handed—and has done most things backwards ever since.At 17 she married a preacher and for the next 28 years followed him across the state as he pastored various local churches. Seven of those years were spent on the Caribbean island of Trinidad, W.I. working as foreign missionaries before returning to Texas at mid-life. At 41 she took her first freshman class and fought her way to a BA in Sociology and a Masters in Educational Psychology while raising four children and being ‘the preacher’s wife’. After that, she worked with non-profit and for-profit organizations within the human services field and conducted private practice as a licensed professional counselor before embarking on a career as a novelist. Her first mystery novel, Dance On His Grave debuted at the same time her non-fiction short story debuted in The Story That Must Be Told: True Tales of Transformation. Her plans are to one day develop the short story into a memoir. She currently lives in Round Rock, Texas with her husband, Bill, an Army Colonel (Ret.).
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The Story That Must Be Told: True Tales of Transformation, Vol. I
Edited by Irene Watson and Victor R. Volkman
Loving Healing Press (2007)
ISBN 9781932690385 Read the review on ReaderViews.com

Synopsis: What will you do when life puts you to the ultimate test? This slim volume contains 21 true stories of courage, love, endurance, and undying hope from people around the USA and UK. Follow each of our authors as they detail what it took to face impossible circumstances and powerfully transform them into forgiveness, understanding, and grace.

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Heyward Bruce Ewart, III, PhD - The Recovering of Self

June 22, 2007 by sysop.

Authors Airwaves is pleased to present Heyward Bruce Ewart, III, PhD reading “A New Developmental Model: The Recovering of Self” (Chapter 2) from his new book AM I BAD? Recovering From Abuse. The average reader is likely familiar with the established models of personality development. It can readily be seen that the more recent theorists progress toward a realization of interpersonal events as major factors directing the course of maturation from infancy to adulthood. They are getting closer to the truth. I, however, take a much different approach. Instead of describing how children might ideally develop, I propose a model based on what I have seen as a clinician, treating most known forms of emotional distress and crippling mental disorders for 25 years. My premise is that all children, to some degree, absorb erroneous information about themselves that can misdirect their course through life, prevent full maturation no matter what model is used to measure, and create a false identity. I have named this the “adopted self”. This adopted self can work rather successfully when a child has been fortunate in his life experiences, although it is not the “real self”. Children who are “lied to” about their nature are destined to acquire an adopted self that limits life in direct proportion to the severity of the false information. Child abuse is the worst case, where the most severe lies are communicated most often and most forcefully.

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You have symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
You feel like a second-class citizen.
Nobody understands: they ask, “Why can’t you get over it?”
You have escaped one abuser only to end up with another.

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