| Mission statement: To provide helpful information to survivors of childhood sexual assault and to let them know that there is Hope for them. I want all who has been or is being abused, to know, that they are NOT alone. With the right resources and support you can learn to live again. |
| THE MIGHTY PHOENIX ADULT SURVIVOR OF CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ASSAULT SUPPORT INFORMATION |
Like the mighty phoenix those of us who are survivors, will rise above that storm we were in and come back out of the fiery ash, on top and soar in the clouds of victory that we haven't been defeated by our perpetrators. Written By: Marie Waldrep |
Here's What YOU Can Do to STOP Sexual Assault: 1. Raise awareness about sexual assault. Encourage your school, place of worship, community center, workplace, hospital or local library to provide current resources about sexual assault. 2. Tell people it is never OK for someone to force sex-not if a person has been drinking, not if a person has agreed to sex in the past, not if a person is sexually turned on - NEVER! 3.Confront attitudes and beliefs that support rape. Openly disagree with people who make comments that blame the victims, and which you know are not true. Object to comments that degrade women or reinforce rigid sex role stereotypes. Point out that riged beliefs about gender roles add to the risk of interpersonal violence. 4. Donate to programs that address sexual assault. Give money or your time to your local community sexual assault center. 5. Remember that you always have a right to say NO! to touching or sex, under any circumstances. If someone disregards you wishes, they have made a choice not to listen and it is not your fault. 6. Team up and help friends stay safer! Use the buddy system to keep friends form being alone in vulnerable situatrions. 7. Base your own relationships in respect. Listen to and honor your partner's wishes. Never push or force someone into unwanted sexual contact. TOGETHER, WE CAN SAY NO TO SEXUAL ASSAULT! WE WILL NOT TOLERATE SEXUAL ABUSE OF ANY KIND IN OUR COMMUNITY |
| We need to contact our local government, congress, legislators and who ever it takes to get the laws changed for victims of incest, childhood sexual assault. It is so unfair for the victims to be told that there is nothing they can do against their perpetrators because their statute of limitations had run out by the time they found enough courage to come forward and get help. Being sexually assaulted affects the rest of your life and is very Debilitating. Why should the perpetrators be able to lay their heads down at night and get a peaceful nights sleep? The mental cruelty that the victims have to go through is so unfair. You feel trapped, ashamed, guilty, you feel powerless, dirty, unprotected, empty, hopeless and very confused, you have countless nights sleep because you are to nervous and afraid to go to sleep at night because you feel so unsafe, you feel all alone, you feel like you are living in a nightmare, you want to wake-up out of it but you can't. It is so very important that we survivors of this awful crime break the silent secrets of sexual assault. Marie Waldrep |
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| As survivors of sexual assault we must learn how to set boundaries for ourselves. |
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| Music Mister, Mister- Broken Wings |
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| "Raise your wings and rise above the storm and fly." "Be Free and Live." Marie Waldrep |
| Philippians Chapter 4 verse 13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. |
| Please take a few minutes and sign my guestbook below before you leave my site. Thank you. Marie W. |
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| TEAM WORK- WHERE THERE IS UNITY, THERE IS ALWAYS VICTORY!!! |
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| Psalms Chapter 28 verse 7 The Lord is my Strength and my Shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him. |
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| Sometimes I hear my vioce and it's been here, silent all these years. -Tori Amos |
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| Isaiah Chapter 40 verse 31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. |
| CHANGE- To Ensure Survival, Change Is Essential. |
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| Every Two Minutes Someone Is Being Sexually Assaulted or Raped. |
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| Isaiah Chapter 41 verse 10 Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of My righteousness. |
| 2 Corinthians Chapter 1 verse 3 & 4 Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; who comfortheth us in all our tribulation. |
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| I will NOT be silent anymore...Children are our future and we need to do what we can to protect them from falling victim to the same violent crime...That is why we must stand up for ourselves and let what happened to us be known...so we can hopefully stop it from happening again to another innocent child... Marie Waldrep |
| "Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." Helen Keller |
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| As you start in your healing process from being a victim of abuse it is very, very important to recognize all signs of being in denial. If you are being dishonest with yourself about the abuse and lying to yourself you are not going to be able to heal from the trauma you have endured. Healing is not an easy process. You have to first except what has happened to you, then face it, to move forward from it. You did nothing wrong. What happened to you was NOT your fault. You must end the self-blame, guilt and shame thought process and place it all where it belongs, with the Abuser/Abusers, perpetrator/perpetrators! In no way are you RESPONSIBLE for what happened to you. It was NOT your FAULT! Remember healing is a slow process, a journey. What happened to us didn't just happen over night, so the healing is not going to just happen over night either. Healing takes time and patience. Healing is in remembering what we went through and learning how to manage what we remember to help us grow. Healing is in feeling and learning how to feel our feelings and learn to manage them in ways to help us grow. Believe it or not feeling is healing. It is when we allow ourselves to feel what we have kept silent for so long that our heal begins to happen. You can heal and YOU are worth taking the time and effort in doing so! Wishing you peace, comfort and healing on your journey to recovery! Marie Waldrep |
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| Bricks From The Ashes is a very beautiful song and inspiring |
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| Continue to next page of The Mighty Phoenix; click the next botton. |
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| *DISCLAIMER* THESE PAGES ARE IN NO WAY MEANT TO BE A SUBSTITUTE FOR THERAPY OR COUNSELING. I AM NOT A THERAPIST. I AM SIMPLY A SURVIVOR SHARING MY OWN EXPERIENCES AND MATERIALS THAT HAVE HELPED ME IN MY OWN HEALING JOURNEY. IN SHARING MY EXPERIENCES I HOPE THAT THEY MAY BE OF SOME HELP FOR OTHER SURVIVORS STARTING IN THEIR OWN HEALING. |
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| Alice Marie is a wonderful singer. She has such a powerful voice and her music is incredible. Click on her banner and visit her site. |
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| Healthy relationships involve respect, trust, and consideration for the other person. |
| As a child, a person doesn't know what to do with the feelings that the abuse they have endured has left behind. Those feelings of aloneness, betrayal, and sadness manifest themselves as anger, anxiety, worthlessness, depression, etc. Sometimes, the abuse (usually incestuous sexual abuse) is so severe that a person's mind may choose to disassociate/split and temporarily "forget" (known as Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), formally known as Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), saving them from having to deal with the trauma right then. Childhood sexual abuse is something that cannot be swept under the rug and simply forgotten. It impacts a persons life. Please do what you can to help stop abuse of all kind. |
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| *DISCLAIMER* This website (The Mighty Phoenix) is in the process of being transferred to my new accounts.Please also view my new websites, which I have listed below. http://themightyphoenix.webs.com/index and and http://www.wix.com/themightyphoenix/index/ and http://avoicewithin.webnode.com/ |
| *DISCLAIMER* This website (The Mighty Phoenix) is in the process of being transferred to my new accounts.Please also view my new websites, which I have listed below. http://themightyphoenix.webs.com/index and http://www.wix.com/themightyphoenix/index and and http://avoicewithin.webnode.com/ |
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