| ISAIAH Ch. 12 V. 2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation. |
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| Guilt is a form of anger directed toward one's self. We should not feel guilty for something that we had no control over. We did not ask to be sexually assaulted. Some of us were children, some of us were teens and some of us were adults. What ever the case may have been, this was not our fault! Marie Waldrep |
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| Helping sexual assault/incest victims, providing them with information and support will help them get a better understanding of their experience and enhance their ability to try to re-establish some sense of safety and trust in their life. We were powerless over the situation at hand. Our trust and dignity was striped away from us. We had no control then. We felt helpless. We had no clue of what to do. Some of us now, still feel the same way as then. We have to fight like crazy to find that key and unlock those chains that have bound us for so long. We are a lot stronger than we think we are. How do you think we have made it through all these years of silence? We must break free from our haunting past. We must learn to live life and enjoy it. We must not let this control us any longer. We must take that step forward and start on our journey of healing. We are worth putting effort in ourselves to have a healthier, happier life. Marie Waldrep |
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| Admire those who succeed, and learn from their success. |
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| One of my main goals in starting my website is to hopefully help others know that they are not alone and to let them know that the feelings they are having is completely normal because of the sexual abuse they went through. I am a survivor, you are not alone. I also hope that others will find some helpful information to start in their own healing process. I wish you all the best in your healing. Marie Waldrep |
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| Shame is a painful feeling of embarrassment or disgrace brought on by doing something wrong. As sexual assault survivors we are disappointed in ourselves because we feel as if there should have been something we could have done to prevent the assault from happening to us. We feel like we are a disgrace for some reason, we just don't know for what. We blame ourselves. If Only...! If only what? What happened to us was not our fault. We had no control over it. No matter how we look at it we were not in control. We were powerless over the situation at hand. We did what we could to survive. Now we have to reach deep down inside and unlock that chain of shame, for we are not to blame for the sexual assault that happened to us. We need to set ourselves free from that awful feeling- SHAME. Marie Waldrep |
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| Music Yanni-Almost A Whisper |
| Helpful Books to Read: A Voice That Has Spoken From Within: A Survivors Feelings Expressed Through Poetry- Marie Waldrep Domestic Violence Series Educational Book/Workbook - MeloD So What's Normal? Life After Podophilia, Abuse and Neglect - Rhonnie Hodge Memoirs of a Sex Industry Survivor - Anne Bissell It Never Stops- Barbie Durbin A Child Called It- David Pelzer Miss America By Day - Marilyn Van Derbur Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You - Sue William Silverman Stolen Innocence - Erin Merryn I Promise Not To Tell - Brenda M. Weber A Broken Feather A Journey to Healing - Suzanne Stutman After Silence: Rape and My Journey Back - Nancy Venable Raine The Courage to Heal -Laura Davis Recovering from Rape- Linda E. Ledray Director of SARS Secret Survivors - E. Sue Blume Where I Stopped: Remembering a Childhood Rape - Martha Ramsey The Wounded Heart Hope For Adult Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse- Dr. Dan B. Allender Leaving Yesterday Behind a victim no more- William L. Hines |
| Please take a few minutes and sign my guestbook so I will know you have visited my site. Thank you. Marie W. |
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| "There is no difference between being Raped and going head first through a windshield except that afterward you are afraid not of cars, but of half the human race." -Marge Piercy |
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| As survivors it is sometimes hard for us to see/recognize the small things in our life we should be thankful for. Marie Waldrep |
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| *DISCLAIMER* THESE PAGES ARE IN NO WAY MENT TO BE A SUBSTITUTE FOR THERAPY OR COUNSELING. I AM SIMPLY A SURVIVOR SHARING MY EXPERIENCES AND MATERIALS THAT HAVE HELPED ME IN MY HEALING JOURNEY. IN SHARING MY EXPERIENCES I HOPE THAT THEY MAY BE OF SOME HELP FOR OTHER SURVIVORS STARTING IN THEIR OWN HEALING. |
| Helping Raise Money for Domestic Violence and Rape Crisis Centers The Drama Queens |
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