My Journey to Peace with PTSD

I nearly accidentally stumbled upon this radio show segment and cannot begin to express how meaningful the words I heard have become to me. PTSD, is a very real thing to the loved ones of the missing and targets of abuse, not an incredible amount of people really understand what it's like to live a life with PTSD. (PTSD = Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)

So anyway, PLEASE check it out...I hope your hearts will be touched with healing from what you hear...mind was... ;)



Excellent Interview with Lady Cerelli, author of My Journey to Peace with PTSD. Insightful look into Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as well as effective treatment methods.

"Peace with PTSD" was founded by Lady Spirit Moon Cerelli, Author, Speaker and Workshop Presenter, to assist those with PTSD, and other stress-related behavior disorders, find a comfortable place to inquire about the information available on PTSD. Diagnosis of PTSD begins with a medical history and physical exam, based on a person's symptoms. We create funds for "Peace with PTSD" by selling educational materials and providing lectures and workshops.

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Fatal Fallout, Coping With Crime

WHAT HAPPENED
In 1982, columnist Issac Bailey's brother Herbert "Moochie" Bailey Jr. was charged in the stabbing death of James Bunch, a former Bonneau city councilman. Bailey recently spoke for the first time about the slaying with the victim's family, as well as his own, for a six-part series that explores the lingering effects of murder on the families of the victims and the accused.



This series explores the effect of crime from the perspective of not only the victim's family, but the family of the convicted. It is a raw look at how in a moment's notice, so many lives are changed, some for the better, some for the worse.

Missing Mother Alice Donovan Highlighted on Justice Interrupted Radio!

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Boys who witness domestic violence are more likely to batter their female partners as adults than boys raised in nonviolent homes.

Tom Starkel, Monday4 the Missing

by Mammabear, Lost Faces of the Missing

Tom Starkel was a very special young man in my life who disppeared off the face of the earth back in Dec. 1979, Its been a very long time but I've never given up hope of finding him justice!!! someone out there knows what happen that night..

I found the above message posted on
Missing Pieces Official Message Board
That's almost 30 years Missing! A lot can happen in a 30 year span. People wed, and/or have children. Some make their fortune, while others loose everything. Time just moves on along, as usual. At least time moves forward for some people.
For others, time is nothing more than a standstill limbo. Sure, they go through the motions of being here, 'in the now.' Yet in reality, they are faced with that one haunting question... and in Hollyjean's case, her question for almost 30 years has been "What Happened to Tom Starkel?"


http://mymilkcarton.org

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Featuring Missing Persons. Each Monday a different missing person will be featured on a number of blogs. If you would like to make a commitment to give a missing person exposure on your blog, please contact us at monday4themissing@gmail.com

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Young Single Missing Mother ~ Melanie Metheny

To further put pressure on the "someone" who must know what happened to Melanie Metheny, CUE Center from Wilmington, NC has erected a billboard with Melanie's information on it in hopes of finding a resolution to this case for her family. After erecting a billboard in Whiteville, NC, within 2 weeks there was a break in the case of Carol Dowless, someone came forward, and she was found after 3 years. We hope that the same answers can come for the Metheny family and that 3 children will have answers.

http://www.findmelanie.com/
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/m/metheny_melanie.html
http://missingpiecesshow.homestead.com/MissingPiecesEpisode47Archive.html
http://wowktv.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=12553
http://www.ncmissingpersons.org/CUE Center

clipped from mothersarevanishing.blogspot.com There is a letter on the family website of Melanie Metheny that her family discovered among her belongings that they didn't even know was there. At the end of the letter Melanie writes the following: Being a single mom is not easy at all but watching my kids grow up and watching them learn new things is the greatest feeling that I ever had. I would not change them for the world and I don't know where I'd be right now if I didn't have them but I know my life wouldn't have as much meaning. After reading those words lovingly put down on paper by Melanie Metheny, there can be no question in the reader's mind that she did not drop them off at day care on the morning of July 19, 2006 and walk away into a new life. Something has happened to Melanie and someone knows exactly what that something is. Melanie had a lot to look forward to in her life and in the lives of her children. The family has not given up, and will not give up, looking for her.

India's Abducted Children Crisis

clipped from www.officer.com Mothers In India… Cry for their abducted children. I found a story that is truly disturbing. It concerns the proliferation in India of abducted children taken from their families and sold into slavery, to adoptive families and into the sex trade. According to officials, an estimated 44,000 Indian children simply vanish each year. Although some are recovered, the story claims three out of the four are never seen again. Complicating matters, it says, is the reluctance of police to become involved. I have to comment that in a country with millions of homeless children and a finite number of police, as well as an admittedly high incidence of parents who willingly sell their own children, it’s a tough solve for that country’s criminal investigators. Face the facts: It’s tough to trace children who disappear in this country – imagine tracing them in a country already burdened by a huge population of homeless kids.

But excuses do not ease the burdens of families who’ve lost children. Internationally, human trafficking, whether for sex, slavery or adoption, should receive more attention than it does. It’s one of the world’s dirty little secrets.
http://www.officer.com/interactive/2008/09/23/mothers-in-india/#more-319

Daughters That Are Missing: Karen Jo Smith

Daughters That Are Missing: Karen Jo Smith

Toolkit To End Violence Against Women.

clipped from toolkit.ncjrs.org To provide concrete guidance to communities, policy leaders, and individuals engaged in activities to end violence against women, the National Advisory Council on Violence Against Women developed the Toolkit To End Violence Against Women. The recommendations contained in the Toolkit were reviewed by numerous experts in the fields of sexual assault, domestic violence, and stalking. Each Toolkit chapter focuses on a particular audience or environment and includes recommendations for strengthening prevention efforts and improving services and advocacy for victims. We encourage you to consult all chapters of the Toolkit for instruction, guidance, and inspiration.

What do Boobs have to do with Father's Rights???

When I see sites like Jugs for Justice, I do not feel compelled to offer any kind of sympathy. They are just another MRA group, intent on using sexism to assert a "right" that men continue to run screaming from. If you can stand clicking on the above link that I provided what you will find are pictures of breasts and stories about men that have been discriminated against. How does sexualizing the female body link to parenting? It seems to me that the only link would be that menz are upset that there is an area in which patriarchy has not yet seen fit to allow them to dominate. So why not just show a few tits, along the way slut shaming women because real mothers would be submissive and pure. Real mothers would subjugate their will to fathers. It doesn't matter if you no longer co-habitate with a man, if you share a genetic link with him through a child he should retain the right unto death to control your life. If that means he needs to slut shame you to get his way so be it.

Groups like this are divisive because they continue to use misogyny and irrationality to support their arguments. It does not support children to spew hatred at their mothers. Exactly what good is a father to a daughter if he continual spews hatred and bitterness towards women? Is he not teaching her that on some level that there is something despicable about her as well? Not a single one of these groups will make substantive gains until they can check the sexism that runs rampant in them. The hatred and naked anger are obvious to anyone with eyes to see it. If you truly love your child, you will not resort to misogyny to gain visitation.

Read More... http://www.womanist-musings.com/2008/10/want-to-win-visitation-demean-women-mra.html

Domestic Violence Awareness Month - October 2008

How Can I Help?
1. Attend upcoming events around the country.

2. Spread the word that October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

Flyer - “Show Your Purple Power” dvam1.pdfPDF
Flyer - “Use Your Voice” dvam2.pdfPDF

3. Show your purple power! Wear purple and pass out purple ribbons.

4. Help a service provider in your area. If you need help locating a service, please call the Hotline 1-800-799-7233.

5. Use the campaign materials to encourage others to join the Million Voices Campaign to End Domestic Violence in America.

How Do I Plan My Own Public Event?

dvam_sampledevents.pdfEvent Ideas PDF - National Resource Center on Domestic Violence

“Planning a Public Event in 8 Weeks or Less” dvam-event-checklist.pdfPDF - DVAM checklist

Million Voices Campaign Volunteer Request

Where Can I Find More Resources?

Read, Learn, Teach

Official DVAM website

Somewhere Smiles Christina

August 9, 2007...Christina Calayca, a 20 year young woman with everything to live for, went for a jog with a friend. A short jog amongst the beautiful background of Rainbow Falls Provincial Park east of Thunder Bay, where she and 3 friends were spending a short vacation camping.

Christina's passion for the life God gave her shone through in her million dollar smile. Excuberance for life, for God, for her family and friends, for the children she oversaw in her daycare occupation. So much to live for, nothing pressing to run away from...thus, the mystery, the mystery with seemingly no clues. Where is Christina? Why didn't that short jog she set out on, ever lead her back home?

http://monday4themissing.blogspot.com/

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Christina Calayca has one of the widest, happiest smiles I have ever seen along with a twinkle in her eye that makes her whole face sparkle with life.Christina was not a rugged outdoors type person according to family members and it is a mystery to them that she would be jogging at the Rainbow Falls Provincial Park in Canada.

She had told family members that she was planning a trip to Montreal for a Christian retreat over a long weekend, and they feel if she went camping it would be somewhere that there was a semblance of civilization and amenities, not in a primitive, rugged area. Apparently Christina and her friends decided to ditch the Montreal plans and headed for the area near Thunder Bay.

It is reported that she was going for a jog with a fire fighter friend, got tired and said she was turning back. She never made it back to the rugged campsite and what happened next continues to be a mystery.

The park is so rugged that searchers who were covering the are were injured and a search dog also went missing. There are several drop offs in the hilly, rough terrain and the family was kept back from the search area because of the dangers.

After 17 days of massive searching they turned up no clues as to what happened to Christina. They continue to go up and down the many trails that she could have taken and the authorities do not suspect foul play from any of her friends she travelled there with. Black bear attack has been ruled out, also.

A year after she went missing on August 6, 2007, her mother has peace within feeling that Christina is in heaven. Her friends live with the regrets of leaving her to jog alone, but no one has forgotten her and that beautiful smile.By all accounts she was a vibrant 20 year old and loved by many. She is missed by her close knit family and friends. Her family is trying to raise $100,000 to renew extensive searching for her."The peace that I have after that," Rutledge (Christina's mother)breathes. "I said truly she is in heaven. She is really taken care of by God."

http://www.findchristinacalayca.com/index.htm

http://peace4missing.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2153128%3ABlogPost%3A10526

MUST Listen To! ~ Online Radio Broadcasts - Peace4 the Missing

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Monday4 the Missing, Brenda Joan Allen Szabo

Mothers are Vanishing: Monday4 the Missing, Brenda Joan Allen Szabo

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Protest for Becca

http://my.opera.com/Delilah1234/blog/2008/09/20/bec

Becca McEvoy was a vibrant young 9 year old when her life was lost in a car accident. She was a fighter and valiantly fought for her life for 10 days on life support. She did not win that battle.

Becca needs us to fight for her now. You see, Becca was to testify in front of a Grand Jury in Mobile, Alabama. She was bravely speaking of things which she had been threatened not to tell, but her story was cut short, as was her life.

Becca McEvoy endured a year of rape and sodomy at the hands of her step father, Bob Ingle, a police officer. According to reports, Bob Ingle not only had his way with Becca, but other family members as well as his own daughter. All of them were threatened, some recanted their own stories.

The legal process is tedious and justice is long in coming in most cases brought through the court system. However, there have been numerous delays in Becca's case and Bob Ingle is still living free and easy in a home with other children present, according to family members.

Becca is a victim. Victims should have equal rights under the law. Victims should have a voice in a court of law. Becca's voice is being silenced. The law in place that may jeopardize much of Becca's testimony is Crawford vs Washington, which simply stated, may keep a lot of testimonial evidence from ever being heard.

Her case was scheduled to go to trial September 22, 2008, but now there has been yet another delay while defense attorneys challenge information to be brought into the trial. Another day is gone for Becca, another day that maybe her voice would have been heard and the scales of justice would have been balanced. Now her already grieving family must wait again before they can start to heal from their losses.

I appeal to everyone to join me in an "Online Protest" to join Becca's family and friends who will be physically protesting in Alabama on Monday, September 22, the day Becca's case was scheduled to begin.

There is a list of email addresses below. It only takes a minute of your time to copy and paste your opinions and email them to officials in Alabama. Let them know you support Becca McEvoy and her family. Let them know that she has the right to a trial free from unreasonable delay. WE have to be the voice for this little victim because the laws are trying too keep her quiet, just as Bob Ingle did when he was molesting her.

Make Monday a day of protest in support of Becca McEvoy.

Alabama Governor Bob Riley
http://governor.alabama.gov/contact/contact_form.aspx


Lt.Governor Jim Folsom
http://www.ltgov.alabama.gov/Contact.aspx

Sec. of State Beth Chapman
Chief of Staff Emily Thompson
emily.thompson@sos.alabama.gov

Public Information Specialist
Tamara Cofield
tamara.cofield@sos.alabama.gov

Attorney General Troy King
http://www.ago.alabama.gov/contact_online.cfm
troyking@ago.state.al.us

Alabama State Senate (35 Senators)
Web Site: http://www.legislature.alabama.gov/senate/senate.html
Email: alsenate@mindspring.com

Miriam Shehane, Commissioner, Alabama Crime Victims Compensation Commission
http://www.acvcc.alabama.gov/commissioners.htm

http://acvcc.alabama.gov


To Read Details of Becca's Case:
http://my.opera.com/rhondawheelus/blog/
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=63475
http://www.jurorthirteen.com/GeneralCategories/MessageBoards/MessageBoards/tabid/60/view/topics/forumid/63/Default.aspx
http://scaredmonkeys.com/2008/04/08/outrage-the-tragic-tale-of-becca-mcevoy-victimized-by-stepfather-bob-ingle-then-again-by-the-us-legal-system-part-1/
http://murphymilanojournal.blogspot.com/2008/05/becca-mcevoy-justice-in-limbo.html
http://womenincrimeink.blogspot.com/2008/04/why-does-child-molester-get-to-benefit.html
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http://mothersarevanishing.blogspot.com

Monday4 the Missing: Benjamin Kyle

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Travis Lee Baker

~LostFaces~ of the Missing: Travis Lee Baker