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in this issue
- What Are You Thankful For?
- Life Lessons
- Quote for Success
- Resource List
- The 411
recommended
reading
The Rape Recovery
HANDBOOK
Aphrodite Matsakis, PH.D.
Step-by-Step Help for
Survivors of Sexual Assault (Paperback)
speak
out!
"Forgive
and forget." This advice is rendered, again and again
and again. Is it truly possible to forgive without
forgetting? What say you?
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What
Are You Thankful For?
Happy
Friday to one and all! I kinda liked the
celebration theme begun with last week's
newsletter so I decided to continue it.
Instead of the title, "Editor's Note"
each topic will have a title--kinda like a warning
flag, if you will.
I
figure by issue #5 y'all have figured out that I'm
the editor, which makes the title a bit redundant,
doesn't it? Anyway, let's get
started:
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We're still growing
steadily - (thank God!)
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My computer came
home - (thank God!)
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We're back on track
- (thank God!)
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We woke up this
morning - (thank God!)
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And it's definitely
Friday - (say it wit meh now-- THANK GOD!)
Seriously,
though, now that we've finally gotten started
(this newsletter originated 11/24/2004 as exhale)
and we're back on track. Now I can take
a little time to elucidate on our theme scripture "...
cast down, but not destroyed."
I'm
sure you can probably tell by the title, where
we're heading, but for the next few newsletters,
we will concentrate on celebrating, who we are,
where we are, and how we are, before we get to
really delving beneath the surface to start (or
continue for some of us) "fixing" ourselves up.
With
that in mind, I've begun recommending books for
each newsletter. Different styles of writing
to celebrate our differences and the way we all
absorb information. I'm sure between the
books, the websites and future interviewees
sharing their practical coping methods, there'll
be something to appeal to everyone's method of
learning.
Our
upcoming articles:
Peace,
Dee
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| Life Lessons: "You Are Not An
Accident!" |
Wednesday,
July 27, 2005
You Are
Not An Accident!
I am your Creator.
You were in My care even before you were born.
~Isaiah 44:2a
Day 2 of
reading The Purpose-Driven Life by Rick Warren.
How many times in life do we rail at the circumstances
of our birth? Resent the parents we ended up with? The
body parts that don't quite work or fit? Or maybe it's
the color of our skin or the part of the world in which
we live that we take issue with.
As the last of eight children, with a six year
difference between the closest sibling and myself, it
really wasn't too hard to figure out that I was an
unplanned addition to the family tree. That and the fact
that I'd heard it mentioned on numerous occasions. Add
to that the fact that I was born in the West Indies, and
while my family wasn't poor, we were certainly not
living large. I recall the restrictive atmosphere and
the feeling of not fitting in because we were
"Spiritual Baptists" (whatever that meant).
Read
entire article
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D.S.
White is the author of Age
is Just a Number (AIJAN). The second edition of
AIJAN will be available June 1, 2006.
Pre-orders are available at Amazon,
ATWC
Books, Barnes
and Noble, or The
Book ClubHouse.
Testimony is an integral
part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion
where the believer stands before the community of faith in
order to give account of the hope that is in him or her.
--James Cone,
1993
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| Free Information - Resources |
I've provided a short
list of hotlines and websites below so that you may
either find the support you need or the information you
need. No need to go it alone, reach out, click and latch
onto what's yours for the taking. Whether you're victim
or perpetrator isn't it time to stop the pain?
Resource
List
Call for Submissions:
Dee411
is now a paying market! We may be on the low end,
but paying we will be.
As
mentioned in the description, this newsletter is geared
toward a specific audience: Sufferers, survivors,
coping/living with someone who has been abused and
preventative measures (i.e. the signs of abuse, how
you can help)
Abuse
affects many aspects of our lives:
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Self-esteem-
How we see ourselves (e.g. overweight, anorexic,
insignificant, unworthy)
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Attitude
- How we carry ourselves (e.g. timidity, hardness,
anger, unforgiveness)
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Mental
health - How our psyche reacts (e.g. depression,
promiscuity, frigidity)
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Habits
- How do we compensate? (e.g. overspending, hoarding,
controlling, lying, cheating, indecisive,
inconsistent)
Articles
on any of the above are acceptable. Although
informative, the tone shouldn't be overly formal and
should end with bulleted action steps or a resource of
some kind. State all sources of information.
Statistics are a plus.
Samples:
Payment:
$15 for unpublished original articles; $5.00
for reprints. Please indicate which you are
submitting. If a reprint, list where and when the piece
was published. Payment via Paypal made upon acceptance.
DEE411 purchases one time electronic rights and archival
rights for the life of the newsletter. After publication,
all rights revert to the author.
Word
Count: Up to 700
(anything longer, make it a two-parter)
Deadlines:
Every Monday by 5pm.
Submit
articles to dee@deeswhite.com
Please
feel free to forward this issue to friends and
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