Cheryl Burke Find your passion. Once you do, nothing can stop you. – Cheryl Burke Dancing with the Stars champion and entrepreneur Cheryl Burke is a survivor of childhood sexual molestation and dating abuse. She has recounted her experiences in chapter five of her memoir Dancing Lessons: How I Found Passion and Potential on the Dance … Read more
Filed under Book Review · Tagged with abuse recovery, Book Review, books, Cheryl Burke, Dancing with the Stars, dating abuse, Domestic Violence Awareness Month, emPOWERment, sexual abuse, sexual molestation, survivor stories
Red sky in the morning, Sailors, take warning. Red sky at night, Sailors’ delight. Bitzie woke me up this morning to see this beautiful sunrise. The forecast today is for stormy seas in the Pacific Ocean. So, there’s some truth to this ancient mariner’s verse. And, I think there’s a bit of a link to the … Read more
Posted by Anne Caroline Drake on February 21, 2011 · 4 Comments
Silenced. Too often, domestic violence victims reach out for help, but can’t get the aid they need before it’s too late. – Rikki King The Daily Herald This is the headline and photo that stopped me cold in Freddie’s (Fred Meyer, a division of Kroger) yesterday. It was on the front page of … Read more
Filed under DV Research and Statistics · Tagged with Daily Herald, dating abuse, domestic violence, domestic violence prevention, domestic violence statistics, family court reform, Mark Roe, pit bull abusers, Rikki King, safety plan, Snohomish County Washington, University of Washington, Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Posted by Anne Caroline Drake on February 21, 2011 · 13 Comments
Victims shouldn’t have to die to get help. – Karen M. Welch 3.4 million people are stalked each year. 80% of domestic violence victims have been stalked before they are murdered. Karen M. Welch and criminal psychologist Dr. Michelle Ward are stalking survivors who are making a difference. Bravo! Ms. Welch was stalked for 12 years until her stalker … Read more
Filed under Life Rafts · Tagged with activist, Barack Obama, Brian Sullivan, dating abuse, domestic violence, Dr. Michelle Ward, Henry Schleiff, Investigation Discovery, Karen M. Welch, pit bull abusers, Ross Yenisey, safety plan, stalking, Stalking Awareness Month, Stalking: Someone's Watching
Posted by Anne Caroline Drake on February 16, 2011 · 2 Comments
I was on Oprah today. OK. Blink. You missed me. Several times. I was in the audience for almost all of Iyanla Vanzant’s twenty-two appearances on Oprah. I vividly recall the Maundy Thursday in 1998 when Oprah struggled to pronounce Iyanla’s name correctly prior to the start of taping. I was in the audience because I had … Read more
Filed under Journey to Joy (J2J) · Tagged with abuse recovery, activist, Anna Quindlen, Black & Blur, Change Your Life TV, child abuse, Complex-PTSD, dating abuse, Depression, domestic violence, doormat, emotional abuse, emPOWERment, faith-based response to DV, Iyanla Vanzant, Marilyn Stanton, Oprah, Oprah Winfrey Show, Oprah's Ultimate Viewers, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, self-care, sexual abuse, Susan Wiggs
Posted by Anne Caroline Drake on December 19, 2010 · 2 Comments
Yes, I know. I’m about the last person in the United States to be on Facebook. I needed for Facebook to get better with privacy issues before it was safe for me to be out there. It shocks the hell out of me to discover that I’m exceedingly well-connected with just 10 friends so far. … Read more
Filed under Journey to Joy (J2J) · Tagged with abuse of power, abuse recovery, dating abuse, domestic violence, emPOWERment, Facebook, Frank Fitzsimmons, Online Communities, pit bull abusers, Privacy, Rita Anita Linger, safety plan, Social Networking
Ginny Nicarthy, author of Getting Free: You Can End Abuse and Take Back Your Life and You can Be Free: An Easy-to-Read Handbook for Abused Women, kicked off L.Y. Marlow’s Saving Promise 10-city national “Gotta Talk About It” rally in Seattle on October 30 at Northgate Mall. Ms. Nicarthy founded Rape Relief in Seattle in 1972. Six years … Read more
Filed under Violence Prevention · Tagged with abuse, abuse recovery, activist, books, Carolyn Scott Brown, child abuse, Color Me Butterfly, Cynthia Obtinario, D.A.W.N., dating abuse, domestic violence, Eastside Domestic Violence Program, emotional abuse, emPOWERment, Faith Trust Institute, faith-based response to DV, Getting Free: You Can End Abuse and Take Back Your Life, Ginny Nicarthy, Jonathan Grove, Karen Foley, King County Washington, L.Y. Marlow, Men Against Domestic Violence, New Beginnings, Northgate Mall, Saving Promise, Seattle, self-care, Seven Star Women's Kung Fu, sexual abuse, The Game Neighborhood Grill and Bar, Velcro Mindset, Verlee for Ransom, Violence and Abuse, William Henkens
Oprah’s last season launches on September 13, 2010. I’m one of those ultimate viewers who has been watching since day one when her show was A.M. Chicago. My life shifted on Maundy Thursday, 1998 after the taping of her show with Iyanla Vanzant. I was hoping Oprah wouldn’t pick Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen … Read more
Filed under Leadership · Tagged with abuse recovery, activist, Anna Quindlen, Black & Blue, books, child abuse, Color Me Butterfly, dating abuse, domestic violence, emotional abuse, emPOWERment, Iyanla Vanzant, L.Y. Marlow, Oprah, Oprah's Ultimate Viewers, Saving Promise, sexual abuse
Posted by Anne Caroline Drake on August 2, 2010 · 4 Comments
We are all beautiful and deserve to be loved without being harmed. – L.Y. Marlow L. Y. Marlow is a survivor. When domestic violence threatened her granddaughter Promise, she decided to end 60 years and four generations of silence. She launched the Saving Promise grassroots movement to end what she calls a pandemic of domestic violence: Her … Read more
Filed under Life Rafts · Tagged with abuse recovery, Book Review, books, child abuse, Color Me Butterfly, Crown Publishing, dating abuse, domestic violence, emPOWERment, L.Y. Marlow, Philip Patrick, Random House, Sarah Breivogel, Saving Promise, Three Rivers Press
Posted by Anne Caroline Drake on July 21, 2010 · 6 Comments
Jurisprudence is getting turned upside down and inside out by attorneys representing abusive criminals. When did documenting evidence in a potential criminal case become a crime? When did engaging in out-of-court settlement negotiations morph into extortion? And, when did a mother asking for child support from a billionaire father become a crime? David Letterman started this … Read more
Filed under DV in the News, Litigation Abuse · Tagged with abuse of power, American Mothers Political Party, child abuse, custody battles, custody disputes, dating abuse, domestic violence, emotional abuse, extortion, litigation abuse, Los Angeles County sheriff, Mel Gibson, Oksana Grigorieva, parental alienation syndrome, PAS
