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Read my latest post from www.secrets2tell.com.

http://www.secrets2tell.com/2011/12/31/loud-proud-bombastic-my-2012-promise/

I’m working on new posts soon, and have been pretty busy gearing up to fight the man who raped me in 2008, and now is using the legal system to cause further harm. Details to come as I work to stay safe and healthy and steer clear of his maliciousness. 2012 is the year of peace, but sometimes peace comes at a price. So 2012 is also the year of “Loud, Proud and Bombastic” as I embark on an activism that won’t be stopped or allow victims to remain voiceless and suffering in the valley of despair.

I’m weary, but driven to carry this mission, along with my broader mission of empowerment, to wherever it may lead. Adversity has a way of birthing fearlessness. That it has done. And I’m just getting started.

In the meantime, here’s my latest post from my site geared toward sexual abuse recovery,  www.secrets2tell.com, titled “Refuse.” Access it at the below link:

http://www.secrets2tell.com/2011/12/29/refuse/

Until we meet or I type to you again, have a blissful, blessed, happy new year!

The posts from secrets2tell that appear on this site will be temporarily unavailable while I fight to preserve my First Amendment right to tell my story, raise awareness about the impact of sexual violence and empower others to avoid this harm, in part by naming the names of those who cause this harm.

As the battle wages, I’ll keep you posted. I’m planning on 2012 being a prolific year for outreach of all kinds. It’s hasn’t been easy, but it’s a worthy cause affecting millions worldwide. We have the power to stop it. Let’s do it. Stay safe, not silent.

http://www.secrets2tell.com/2011/12/21/legal-update-why-you-won%e2%80%99t-see-certain-posts/

Please read my latest post  from my blog, www.secrets2tell.com, containing important updates.  Thanks for all your wonderful support, as always. The link appears below:

http://www.secrets2tell.com/2011/11/02/why-i-am-not-safe/

As many of you know, I am an outspoken advocate of empowerment in general, and specifically as it relates to victims’ rights and recovery. Below is a link to my latest post from my blog, www.secrets2tell.com, dedicated to raising awareness about sexual violence, abuse and the need to seek recovery. Most whose paths I cross know who I am, but in this post,  I own the pseudonym  I used and still will use as I struggle through recovery. This post also has some important legal and personal updates. Expect to hear  more from me on this important topic, very soon.

http://www.secrets2tell.com/2011/09/20/this-truth-i-own/

Check out this article–my debut post–from examiner.com and learn how to have a truly happy new year in love.

http://www.examiner.com/dating-tips-6-in-richmond/esmeralda-barnes

You love them. You hate them. You wait for them to call. And when they don’t, sometimes you imagine them in the glare of your high beams, as you rev up the gas.

But prison orange isn’t your hue. Hurt and desperation make you feel like a love-starved zombie jones’n for pain. You wonder what force compels you repeatedly through the revolving door of dead-end relationships.

Dumped or dateless or both, the only one way out of a love life that sucks (and keeps sucking) is through the damage that got you there.

No one is a loser magnet by fate or accident. You attract people who reflect, in one way or another, the level of emotional health and stability you have built throughout your life, health to health, or damage to damage. If you’re stuck on rescuing or being rescued, helping or being helped, you will attract a perfect partner. And it will be hell.

But you don’t have to be a lifetime member of Loser Magnets of America. You do have to choose to stop the madness, and take a break from mindless, loneliness-induced dating that one day will claim your soul and drive you to the brink of insanity and desperation. (more…)

We came across this spunky, wise post from blogger Corletta Clay on Spiritual Networks, and we thought we’d pass it on. Chin up and enjoy!

http://spiritualnetworks.com/corletta-clay/blog/dealing-with-disappointment/

PART II of the  two-part “Unleash Financial Abundance NOW” series.

So you mustn’t be frightened, if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever seen. If an anxiety, like light and cloud-shadows, moves over your hands and over everything you do. You must realize that something is happening to you. That life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall. ~German poet, Rainer Maria Rilke.

When we are grounded in the focused, clear energy of love and abundance, we make sound choices, stay motivated, seek healthy counsel and resolution to issues, and take calculated steps and risks. Sometimes the pay-off is immediate and we secure fast resolution to financial woes. Other times, delays and mounting expenses wear down even the strongest of us.

Where does that leave us, since lasting solutions are rarely simply “magical?” Feel it, say it and everything goes my way is not the whole story for most of us. The energy and language we choose and use are vital to the next step we take to discover our respective financial promised lands.  Action. But that can be complicated, if  true financial abundance is our goal. (more…)

PART I of the  two-part “Unleash Financial Abundance NOW” series.

Economic recession.  Foreclosures.  Lay offs.  Unemployment.  Homelessness. Hopelessness.  No way out…

The news drones on about it, affirming troubled times and human despair. We listen, soak in the words. Before we know it, (and often without thinking about it) we start using (read choosing) words that speak into existence the very things we fear the most. Simple cause and effect. We are not only what we eat, but what we hear, what we receive and believe, what we think and what we speak.

Ultimately, if we do not recognize, challenge and shift the energy behind the messages and events that bombard us, we indeed will be powerless as we careen toward more adversity.

But powerLESS  is the last thing we truly are, in spite of the most defeating lies our media-fueled fears tell us. Yes, we lost money, houses, jobs, retirement funds, hope and more. That’s hard evidence difficult for a human mind to ignore. But how did this happen? What did we lose first, the robust economy or our spiritual connection to an unlimited, self-sustaining source of abundance?

You may think you know the answer. But it’s never that simple.

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