Welcome my guest Margie McKinnon From International Organization The Lamplighters

Margie Mckinnon

The Lamplighters

An International Movement For Incest And Child Sexual Abuse Recovery






The Lamplighters is an international movement for recovery of incest and childhood sexual abuse that currently has 74 chapters in fourteen countries. Our website is at http://www.thelamplighters.org


We are looking for people to start a chapter in their area. It is so easy. All you need is you and one other person sharing your stories and talking about how you are dealing with them. The information is on our website under Start A Group. There is a link that will take you to the Lamplighter Facilitator Guide.



If you are interested please contact Margie McKinnon at margie@thelamplighters.org.

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This will be short. I am a father of 2 young children. I came from a family of 6 kids. Very loving naive, normal childhood. I was driven to do something after the news came out about the two children mentioned in my petition.http://t.co/KOqtOjc

My heart had previously felt such pain every time before I heard a horrific story of child abuse. I can't fathom what a child must go through. I actually unknowingly drove by the vehicle on the highway the morning the police found these children (before the news broke) I didn't sleep that night. I decided then I would help abused children escape the their own nightmare. The petition is a start. I won't give up until something changes for the better.

EYES OPEN !

I would like you to meet "@24KAuGuy ( not my real name ) a special guest

I have been hearing one of the many whispers on Twitter, he is known as @24KAuGuy. Not his real name of course but it is what we know him by. There are a lot of what I call The Whisperers on twitter each of us breaking the silence about Child Abuse but for some unknown reason I am drawn to his tweets. His tweets ( notes of comment ) make everyone sit up and listen. Maybe its because I recognize his pain as I now recognize my children's pain. He may be just one voice on twitter but there are many whisperers behind him and we make one loud voice ! @24KAuGuy is not ready to blog yet but has allowed me to publish some of his twitter comments.

Not my real name

Childhood sexual abuse survivor. Slowly realizing that I no longer have to fight this battle alone. I am finding my voice and speaking for the boy who couldn't.

All I have to give the world is my truth....

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By the time I was 7 I knew my place in the world was to be used...hell i think I knew that before I could even talk...

#onlystupidpeoplethink : children are only at risk of #abuse by strangers

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#onlystupidpeoplethink : boys aren't traumatised by #sexual #abuse

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So many #male #survivors, so few resources for healing...asking for help is not asking for too much, is it?

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And that feeling..of being worthless..of being the lowest form of life..of not being even human..that's what #sexual #abuse has left me with

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Why would educators see a 12-13yo boy who was so withdrawn from his studies just assume he was not capable of learning?

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Some of the most confusing things for me as a boy being #sexually #abused was my body reactions...used against me...

KATHLEEN FREEMAN'S BLUE

BLUE BY KATHLEEN FREEMAN

Blue

I see you a small square of blue

in the corner of my eye blended
The warmth of your concern seeped into me
finding some pores not quite clogged

Mingling with my sadness, a strange cocktail
I drank it down like Alice
I hated it, and I remembered
daddy had a blue eye too

Like a piece of ocean washed glass
it glinted from the horizon
Mournfully staring, emptied of memory

  

Azure blue butterflies are better
they live and they die in the sun.
Caressing tall soft grasses, constantly

moving, they can never settle
never to belong, refusing to love

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