Posts tagged pedophilia
December 16, 2011 · Filed under My Book: BookMark, News, Personal · Tagged abuse, alcoholism, career, healing, inspiration, Jerry Sandusky, Mike McQueary, mother, optimism, pedophilia, Penn State, physical health, positive thinking, rape, relationships, self awareness, stepfather, therapy, trauma
Brutal news week.
I used to draw down a wall between my life and the news. As I anchored the news, reading about others’ pain, I didn’t feel my own. I was inured from the intrusions of decades of sexual abuse. I could focus on WhoWhatWhenWhereWhyHow and script the stories, read my own words, tell the story. That’s over. It’s actually been over for a few years until I could finally break down that inviolate partition. I was healed. I thought.
But this was a brutal news week. Read the rest of this entry »
May 29, 2011 · Filed under Personal · Tagged abuse, alcoholism, career, dancing, diabetes, father, fearless, happiness, healing, inspiration, Marisa Russo, mother, pedophilia, rape, therapy
For years, I hid it, never spoke about it. Until finally, it pushed up out of me like a beach ball you press down in the water – it pops out. Has to.
And, one day, the gift of that childhood trauma becomes apparent.
First, the damage and danger twists synapses, neural pathways, belief systems, trust, whom you love and who you run from. What does a four-and-a-half year old girl learn from being raped by her mother’s new husband? Handsome guy, her mother head over heels in love with him, her cutting the little girl’s real father out of every photo, changing the girl’s name, and silencing her when she tries to speak it. Mother, an alcoholic, suicidal, schizophrenic. Real father, gone, after the little girl reaches age six, because the stepfather beat him up and told him to never come back. She never saw her dad again.
Little girl escapes Read the rest of this entry »
May 6, 2011 · Filed under Personal · Tagged abuse, career, father, fearless, film, healing, inspiration, mother, movie, optimism, pedophilia, positive thinking, rape, relationships, self awareness, stepfather, storytelling, The Kings Speech, therapy
It’s been awhile since I’ve blogged. And, this is, in part, an apology for not having checked in. I’ve been making my own art, and making a living. I’ve been interviewing and reading – just haven’t written here.
I decided to take tonight “off,” and not produce the 30-minute podcastor, not prep for my next appearance on KOIN-TV’s Studio 6, not rework the last two chapters of my memoir. Instead, my housemate, who is leading me into learning how to “play,” watched with me the Academy Award winning movie, The King’s Speech.
The film struck me deep. Read the rest of this entry »
October 24, 2010 · Filed under Book Reviews · Tagged abuse, career, fearless, goals, happiness, healing, inspiration, law of attraction, manifest, optimism, passion, pedophilia, positive thinking, rape, self awareness, stepfather, trauma, wisdom, writing
Inspired Destiny: Living a Fulfilling and Purposeful Life
By Dr John F Demartini
Published July 15, 2010 (Paperback) Hay House
Of the dozens of Law of Attraction books I’ve read over my twenty-plus years of interviewing authors, Inspired Destiny is one of the best. Dr. John Demartini doesn’t lecture down from a mount. He draws from his own difficult beginnings: A dyslexic kid whom teachers told had no chance of succeeding in the world. As a teen, he ran off to be a surfer. The author of dozens of books, he was featured in the film phenom, The Secret.
A little secret from me to you: Read the rest of this entry »
October 11, 2010 · Filed under Author Interviews, Book Reviews · Tagged abuse, angels, dancing, fearless, fiction, happiness, healing, inspiration, mother, motherhood, novel, optimism, pedophilia, positive thinking, rape, relationships, self awareness, stepfather, storytelling, trauma, writing
Room
By Emma Donoghue
Published September 13, 2010 (Hardcover) Little, Brown and Company
If you have a five-year old, you know how pivotal that year is. A bridge between fantasy and reality, between playing with anything and going to school where you play with what you are given, between trusting just nearby adults and trusting an expanding world. Trust. What is really real.
Five is a touch-point. You remember being five in your own life. What happened then may have altered your direction in life. It did for me. It did for Jack, in this bestselling novel by Emma Donoghue. Read the rest of this entry »
September 12, 2010 · Filed under Book Reviews · Tagged adoption, cruelty, divorce, father, fiction, happiness, healing, marriage, mother, pedophilia, rape, relationships, self awareness, storytelling, writing
Chosen: A Novel
By Chandra Hoffman
Published August 24, 2010 (Hardcover) Harper
Seems I’ve been attracted lately to novels that, in some way, address babies and children. In a word – family! Chandra Hoffman’s novel, Chosen, seduced me instantly with the topic.
There’s a sweet tone to the book – Chloe’s mostly – even though Hoffman also tells the story in the voices of Penny, Paul, and Jason. A pregnant woman, the husband whose wife finally gives birth, and Penny’s difficult boyfriend. We also see Francie’s posts on the adoption site – Francie, a woman who has not been able to have a child of her own.
Chloe is an adoption worker who handles both the desperate parents wanting a child, willing to do anything to have a child, and the frantic parents-to-be, who are not sure whether to (1) end it, (2) have it and adopt it out, and (3) have it and keep it. The waters keep getting muddied. A lot. Especially when you blend in meth mothers and the violent cons who get them pregnant. Especially when one baby goes missing. Read the rest of this entry »
September 5, 2010 · Filed under Author Interviews · Tagged abuse, angels, Church, damnation, father, fearless, God, happiness, healing, heaven, hell, inspiration, love, mother, passion, pedophilia, rape, relationships, religion, self awareness, spirituality, stepfather, trauma, writing
Time for Truth: A New Beginning
By Nick Bunick
Published September 1, 2010 (Paperback) Hay House
Angels abound! If you’re reading this, the odds are extremely high that you, too, believe in angels. Most of us do. I’ve seen angels most of my life. After a couple of years in the same writing group where I worked on my memoir, New York Times bestselling author Chelsea Cain signed one of her books to me: For Diana, who (almost) makes me believe in angels.
There are angels, but there is no hell. Nick Bunick told me in an interview recorded a few days ago Read the rest of this entry »
September 1, 2010 · Filed under Book Reviews · Tagged 444, abuse, angels, inspiration, Jeshua, Nick Bunick, pedophilia, rape, recipes, self awareness, The Messenger, trauma
Time for Truth: A New Beginning
By Nick Bunick
Published September 1, 2010 (Paperback) Hay House
It is Time for Truth. This sense – mandate, almost – seems to be flying from all directions. And, Nick Bunick’s book may be a harbinger.
You may remember Nick Bunick from his best-selling book The Messengers. In it, he revealed that he was Paul, Jeshua’s friend. I interviewed Nick about that book. I remember reading The Messengers, and as I closed the book, which was stuffed with references of the number 444, indicating angelic presence, I looked up and saw the clock – precisely 4:44. I ended up being interviewed by USA Today about Nick. I’ll have a chance tomorrow to interview Nick about Time for Truth. Read the rest of this entry »
July 5, 2010 · Filed under Book Reviews · Tagged abuse, inspiration, memoir, pedophilia, rape, relationships, self awareness, stepfather, storytelling, therapy, this boy's life, trauma, writing, writing group
This Boy’s Life
By Tobias Wolff
Published March 2000 (Paperback) Grove Press
For years I have not wanted to read This Boy’s Life. I already had an evil stepfather. What was the point of revisiting the grief through the eyes of another tortured stepchild?
Members of my writing group – according to the Oregonian – “the hottest writing group in Portland,” insisted that I read Tobias Wolff’s book. Read the rest of this entry »
June 14, 2010 · Filed under Author Interviews · Tagged abuse, career, father, father's day, fearless, friendship, healing, hero, heroes, inspiration, mother, passion, pedophilia, self awareness, son, stepfather, storytelling, trauma, writing
Heroes for My Son
By Brad Meltzer
Published May 11, 2010 (Hardcover) HarperOne
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One definition of a hero might be this: a man who begins writing a book for his son the day he is born with the words “Be nice to the fat kid in class,” and ends up spilling the secrets behind what turned ordinary men and women into heroes. Read the rest of this entry »
