And we enter our last week
Well atleast we are about to enter in our last week…. In the past 20 days since we told you all that we are calling for Survivor stories, we have been overwhelmed the response we got. The trust you held in us by sharing stories that you have never shared before. We thank you for that. We understand that its been catharsis to most of you as it has been for us. However as we enter our last week we have so many stories that we are not able to handle it any more. We are already posting two SS a day since a few days and hence we really feel sad in saying that we will not be able to accept any more Survivor stories for this month.
However this doesn’t mean that you can’t send us something. You can’t share what you want to. We have been thinking for the past 20 days as the stories have been pouring in, reading each one of them and realising that we are pretending to be normal people in our lives apart from sharing the stories here. So how did we come from becoming an emotional disaster abused child to a person who now has a normal life… a boyfriend may be and quite a lot of us are now married with kids… certainly part of us has healed.We would love to hear from you how that healing happened. What helped you and did sharing or this month make a difference to your life.
Lets end this last week of CSAAM on a positive note so that we feel better about ourselves more confident of protecting our kids and an inspiration and help for those unfortunate survivors who are yet to heal.
We would love it if you can mail us the response to the following questions at csa.awareness.april@gmail.com so that we can collate it together in multiple posts to show everyone hope. Please feel free to add more than the responses to the mail if you want.
- What does healing mean to you?
- Do think you have somewhat healed and are ready to move on with your life?
- Was there an event / person that may have acted as a watershed moment/turning point in your healing?
- What were the milestones on your journey back to a normal life?
- How do you react/ feel towards the abuser today? Has the reaction changed over the years?
- Looking back now would u have done something different at the time abuse happened?
- What is your advice to the other survivors?
- Are u a parent? if yes how will the abuse affect the way u protect ur child?
- What effect did the posts on the CSA blog (survivor stories, expert advice, resources etc) have on you?
Thank You,
The CSAAM Team
