Never Alone

I just went through my records for new survivor blogs, adding to it from new sites that I came across yesterday. Twenty new blogs, just like that. That makes just over 100 survivor blogs since I first started searching the net for this project in June. Quite a few of the survivor-bloggers I’ve yet to contact regarding this little project. But adding them last night, one survivor after another, it was almost kind of eerie. I got the same feeling when I researched the dozens of children who have died as a result of violence across the state of Indiana. That research was for a charity that I started last month, just after getting a lot of the initial work done for this project.

I kept getting the sense of all these names and faces crying out to me for validation:
“See me. I’m here, I’m REAL. I exist…and I’ve suffered in ways you could never imagine. Most of all REMEMBER me. Don’t forget that all of this happened. Don’t leave me behind…”

Survivor Pages Updated!

Twenty-one new blogs, written by survivors of childhood abuse, have officially been added to my Survivor Pages! The Survivor Blogs are now each divided according to their specific blog hosting services, or blogging communities. I’ve done this to help unite members of individual blogging communities. For example, through hosting services such as LiveJournal, individuals can send friend invites to other LJ members. Here at wordpress.com we can easily subscribe to each other’s blogs through our WordPress BlogSurfers, and keep in contact. Just click on the icons here to surf through the listings. Enjoy!

Note: My contact information is listed below. Please, if you know of any survivor blogs that you think might be helpful, or if you own one that isn’t yet listed, please let me know.

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Ani Star
My Dissonance
URL: http://withdissonance.net
Email: anistar@withdissonance.net

Searching For Survivor Blogs

This blog is meant to be really just a portal into my main online journal at www.withdissonance.net. But it also allows me to keep an account with blogger and network with others in the blogger community. I'm looking for as many other survivors with blogs dedicated to their healing journey's as I can. For any blogger accounts, I would like to add them here, as well as at my main homepage (almost half of the 45 blogs I've located thus far have been through blogger!). So, in case I don't contact you first, feel free to email me at anistar@dissonance.net and I can check out your blog, and hopefully you can check out mine. I think it will help us, as survivors, to keep in touch with one another - each of whom are in a similar place - to join together and be supported through our individual experiences and strengths.

Hope Sent,
~ Ani

My New Website

INTRODUCTION
As a survivor of childhood abuse I will never again be defined merely by my fight to survive. While once haunted by a past that seemed destined to destroy me, through my transcendance, the only fight left now is in reaching out. If I can touch those still lost in the same senseless misery that once consumed my world, I want to give them hope that they’re worth saving. No matter what we as human’s are up against, freeing ourselves is a choice that its up to each of us to make. Otherwise we leave behind all that we are, abandoning ourselves behind a mask of self preservation; a mask that only imprisons us in the end.

This is my voice. I’m not heard only because I’m out of hearing range. My journaling is where I’ll most often be expressing my feelings about my life events, hopes, dreams, and day-to-day existence. Following my journal are pages to the poetry, essays, and articles that I’ve written.

To read more, please stop by:

http://www.withdissonance.net