Posted by Anne Caroline Drake on April 12, 2012 · 2 Comments
Release your faith, knowing with assurance, that ALL circumstances will work in your favor today! – Mildred D. Muhammad Mildred D. Muhammad, author of Scared Silent and founder of After the Trauma, is the ex-wife of D.C. Sniper John Allen Muhammad. She will be on Anderson on Friday, April 13. You can find out when Anderson … Read more
Filed under DV in the News · Tagged with abuse recovery, activist, After the Trauma, Anderson Cooper, books, DC Sniper, domestic violence, emPOWERment, faith-based response to DV, Mildred Muhammad, parental alienation syndrome, PAS, Scared Silent, survivor stories
The bully never remembers, the outcast never forgets. – Jodee Blanco Bullying. It’s everywhere: on the playground, in our boardrooms and bedrooms, and in the news. Jodee Blanco is a peer abuse (bullying) survivor who is making a difference. She is on a mission to teach us how to treat each other with dignity and respect. … Read more
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Release your faith, knowing with assurance, that ALL circumstances will work in your favor today! – Mildred D. Muhammad Update: The Anderson show featuring Ms. Muhammad will be taped on Friday. Please stay posted for the air date. Yesterday was an exciting day for DV survivors! Who says one person can’t make a difference? Mildred D. Muhammad, … Read more
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Posted by Anne Caroline Drake on February 24, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Sheriff Dave Reichert interrogating Green River serial killer Gary Ridgway You’re an evil, murdering, monstrous, cowardly man. – Sheriff David Reichert Two men. Same experience. Different choices. One chose the path of evil. The other chose the path of love and courage. Their lives intersected for twenty years in King County, WA. Gary Leon Ridgway … Read more
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Posted by Anne Caroline Drake on February 7, 2012 · 2 Comments
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Posted by Anne Caroline Drake on November 11, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Hold on tightly to the things you love and get rid of the things you don’t. – Hoda Kotb Hoda Kotb, Today Show co-host, Dateline correspondent, and breast cancer survivor, has learned lessons that I think will help those of us who are wearing purple. It only takes one person to change your life. – Hoda … Read more
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Posted by Anne Caroline Drake on November 1, 2011 · 1 Comment
I am investing in people. – Doris Buffett What would you do if someone dropped hundreds of millions of dollars into your lap? If you are like Doris Eleanor Buffett, you will give it all away. During a dinner party at her younger brother Warren E. Buffett’s home, Bono suggested she write the story of … Read more
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Posted by Anne Caroline Drake on October 30, 2011 · 2 Comments
Your thoughts create your life. – Louise L. Hay Louise L. Hay recently celebrated her 85th birthday with 400 friends and colleagues. She survived childhood rape and incest; child abuse, neglect and abandonment; teenage pregnancy; dating violence; and cervical cancer. She was a high-fashion model who married prosperous English businessman Andrew Hay and met royalty and dined at the White … Read more
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A woman must have money and a room of her own. -Virginia Woolf, 1929 Why do women stay in violent relationships? Money. The gilded cage traps birds of all feathers. Children who experience abuse and incest are trapped in that cage. The life of a teenage run-away is dangerous. Women with children often are trapped in … Read more
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I’m friendly, I’m outgoing, and I like men. – Virginia Clinton Kelley First Mother Virginia Dell Cassidy Blythe Clinton Dwire Kelley bubbled with life. She survived child abuse and domestic violence, but she did not survive breast cancer. She passed away on January 6, 1994. Over 3,000 people attended her funeral, and she was buried on Elvis’ … Read more
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