Strong At The Heart

Today is the launch of the first “blog carnival” I’ve participated in. You might want to check it out. Marj of Survivors Can Thrive pulled it together.

A blog carnival is a linking of blog pages on a related theme. In this case, child sexual abuse. You can find it at the carnival site index where you’ll find it under “Carnival Against Child Sexual Abuse. Or go directly to Marj’s site.

For the Carnival, she’s pulled together descriptions of about twenty five blogs and then provided links to particularly interesting posts. Catagories include Survivor’s Stories, Poetry, In The News, Healing and Therapy, Aftermath, and Advocacy and Awareness.

This blog is listed under Aftermath and the link goes to the discussion of the Black Oak Books event and what came afterwards, the discussion between a mother and a therapist that took place on this blog.

I’m still checking out the various sites. There’s some very good material here, including Dr. Deborah Serani’s excellent page of facts and tips for parents.

Marj will be doing a second edition in July, so if you have a blog yourself or know of one you want to nominate, be sure to contact her. Below the carnival entry (link above) you’ll find directions.

funny girl

A blog I want to nominate is the very funny–and very adult–Ethel’s Law by a survivor whose humor is biting, true, and occasionally over the top. This weekend Ethel’s entry is “Which Day Exactly ISN’T Father’s Day.” BTW, this is no fifth grader writing, no matter what she claims.