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I'm back and refreshed from my vacation. Thanks to all of you who visited during my absence! I appreciate everyone who visited and signed my guest book (on the About Me page) and thanks to everyone who e-mailed me during that time. I promise to get through these messages as soon as I can this week and reply to each one.

I also want to thank everyone who took my Web Poll (on the Healing page). It's not too late to vote for your healing topic of choice. Votes that come in after today will still be counted for future healing topics. So far, it looks like the majority of votes are for discussing triggers and phobias resulting from PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder). I will begin working on this topic this week. If you haven't done so already, please be sure to either sign my guest book or e-mail me to be included in my mailing list and receive messages as I update these pages and my blog.

First, I want to welcome everyone and thank you for visiting Hope4Survivors. As you may know, I am a survivor of childhood physical, sexual, emotional and ritualistic abuse. I have been writing a book about my experiences, including my journey of healing for the past couple of years now. I am finished with the autobiographical information and am completing the self-help section now. Within the next few months, I should be done with my book and submitting the manuscript to potential publishers. If you would like to be kept informed as to my progress and notified when the book is released, please be sure to sign my guest book on the About Me page.

Until my book is on the market (God willing), I want to provide hope and healing suggestions on this Web site for other survivors of abuse, domestic violence, rape, incest and other forms of trauma. Throughout my recovery process I have had great success with a variety of therapy techniques. I share many of these techniques and provide work pages within my book. I will be including some of these healing techniques on the Healing page of this Web site. My primary goal is to provide information MOST relevant and helpful to YOU, my survivor sisters and brothers. So, please take my Web poll on the Healing page so that I can provide what's most important to you. The first healing pages will be posted the week of July 24, 2006.

Welcome everyone! I've finally got the first installments of the Healing Topics pages up and running. Since the majority of those who voted in our Web poll in July voted for learning more about Triggers and Phobias, that's where I've started.

The next most popular topic so far, is about Self-Esteem. There's still time to vote for your choice on the Healing page. If there is a topic you'd like to learn more about that is not listed in the Web poll, please sign my guest book on the About Me page, or send me an e-mail at: hope4us61@msn.com

Good afternoon! Just an update to let everyone know that I've changed the Inspiration page to include some awesome poetry by a fellow survivor. Please check it out and come back tomorrow as I post the next installment about Triggers and Phobias on the Healing page.

I really appreciate everyone who has been so supportive of this new site! I also appreciate your patience. I was not able to get the third Triggers and Phobias page up yesterday as I had a large, unexpected project at my real (paying) job that I had to complete.

The third page is now up and running. It is about Safely Releasing Pent up Emotions Associated with Triggers and Phobias.

August 10, 2006

Hope everyone's having a great week! I've been busy, so please check out the new pages:

1) I've been contacted by some amazing survivors who had the desire to share their stories. Please visit the new Survivor Heroes page often as I add more stories of hope, courage and inspiration.

2) The fourth page on the topic of Triggers & Phobias has now been posted. This new page gives ideas for Working with Triggers & Phobias...ways to lessen the impact that triggers have on our daily lives.

The topics of Healing Shame and Self-Esteem are running neck and neck in our Web poll. I will close voting for the second series of Healing topics on August 14, 2006. So, please vote now for your preference on the Healing page.

Finally, I'm having some work done on my computer tomorrow, so I will be off-line until next Monday, August 14, 2006. Everyone have a great weekend and I'll be back with you next week.

God bless, Hope