Edition 7, vol 1.7
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15 April 2000
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Updates on The Saferoom Project Remembering Survival Newsworthy: Involvement In the Rooms... Therapy Landscape: Book Review What Our Members Are Doing Call For Submissions: ...Writers... Poets... Artists Acknowledgements About The Saferoom Project eNewsletter |
Welcome The Saferoom Project eNewsletter!!
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Happy Spring!!! I hope that this edition finds everyone doing
well! I would like to welcome all new readers to The Project, as
well as wave to all the veteran members and supporters. Thanks to
everyone for their continued support and effort in keeping The
Project running well. We have had quite a bit of activity in the
last month, and some new things happening at the web site.
April is a special month, containing holidays
for most. It is also National Poetry Month, Holocaust Remembrance
Month, Earth Day (22), Stress Awareness Month, just to name a few.
Please take some time to enjoy this spring, and create some joy in
your life.
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In the last month, all of the forums have experienced steady growth, and there are more and more regular chats being hosted. Please check out the calendars or schedules at each site, to find a chat time that is convenient for you. For directions to all of our forums, check out the FAQ at our web site, Saferoom.org.Our web site also continues to grow, with new additions in the Gallery and Shopping Site. We would also like to invite all partners, family, friends and supporters of survivors to join the SRP Partners forum.
"In Germany, the Nazis first came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak for me."
-Rev. Martin Niemöller. (1892-1984)"Take heed...lest you forget the things which your eyes have seen, and... teach them to your children and to your children's children."
- Deuteronomy 4:9Survival requires only the will, the barest minimum to get from Point A to Point B. And then with some graceful leniency on the Self, and refocusing on the will to live, one heals, and one seeks Life. But at what point do the lessons from the struggle of One become the preventive means of Many? When we remember...
Because one endures it, doesn't mean he or she has to look back. All survivors, at any point in healing, have something to look back on in the healing path. It is this remembrance of the days of survival that requires courage--to look back on something preferably left behind. Remembering struggle is to honor its existence, the effects that it had on the individual, loved ones, community, even the world. Remembering serves to keep this survivalistic past distinct, providing perspective for the present, the future.
April is Holocaust Remembrance Month. It is no mistake that the awareness for such an atrocity falls on the birthday month of the very man who instigated it. I find a gleeful "HA!" in this fact, as if his very birth is discounted by revisiting the tragedies brought by his life, and the subsequent survivals. But how can we remember the Holocaust, and not remember Hitler, because to look into the epitome of the lives that were lost and horribly changed forever, is to look into the very eyes of the man who claimed it his life long achievement. The two can not be distinguished, and in this month, they are not meant to be, as in remembering their survival, we also remember to prevent the hatred in others who would continue this man's cause, and other acts of violence.
I have long been a student of the Holocaust, and I visited Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, in 1998. What distinquishes this camp, apart from being the first, is that it was a training camp on which all other camps were based, and it imprisoned many Nazi undesirables, other than Jews. This camp held political prisoners, gypsies, homosexuals, priests, Jehovah's Witnesses, habitual criminals, "anti-socials" (ie the homeless), and the mentally ill. As Jews wore the Star of David to indicate their "crime", each of these other groups bore their own unique patch, indentifying their reasons for imprisonment. Many were victims of such camps, and many were their survivors.
Remembering is looking back to a place where you once stood, and realizing that you are no longer there-- that the safety in that distance ensures your ability to look back at all... So, keeping in mind the plight of our common history of abuse, I ask you to someday look back, to remember your own survival struggle with dignity and integrity. Remember it in the detail that you need to, to prevent it from happening again in your life and the lives of those around you. Remember it and stand as your own testament to your life, the life that is, and the lives to come.
If only once a year, know that there are throngs of people in the world who understand pain, and who have survived to make their lives a monument to stopping violence toward all. It starts with surviving. It continues, by remembering.
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Newsworthy
If you have a news item to include in the SRP eNewsletter, contact copper_beech. |
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| Moderating Chats... We have had great succes getting moderated chats started in the Delphi room. Thanks to everyone who has helped us get that room established! Please check the calendars at each chat site, in order to keep up with scheduled chats... Currently there are chats hosted regularly at Delphi, Saferom at Yahoo, and at SRP at Yahoo. While it has taken us a while to get the Excite forum open, we hope that it will be available for use in the next month. Also note that Delphi is also now voice chat enabled. If you are unsure of the location of these chats, read the FAQ at the Saferoom site. Please take some time to check out these forums and chats. And if you can give even just an hour a week, it would be great... Speak with a founder to find out how to host a chat... |
Forum Glitches... Yahoo has been having net splits, as well as
not letting people read the post board, or into chat. You may
have better connectivity with Yahoo using
Cheeta Chat, which
can be used across a few chat systems. For those who are having
problems with Yahoo Messenger, try using ICQ, which most members already
use. The only problems reported with Delphi at
present are occasional lags in chat.
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Most of you are already aware that you can donate funds to The Project by shopping though our web site. In the last month, we have become affiliates of Hershey.com, Hallmark.com, Franklin Mint.com, 1800-FLOWERS.com, AllHerb.com, GreenMarketPlace.com, and Astrology.com . We have long been affiliates with Amazon.com, and Drugstore.com. To make contributions to The Project while you shop online, visit our Shop at The Project site. All donations go to the upkeep and maintenance of our web site and hosting fees, and to the fund to acquire a privately hosted chat server (WOO HOO). If you do not wish to shop online, but still desire to donate funds to The Project, please direct these inquiries to mrs88888 and copper_beech. |
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| Therapy Landscape...
The SRP eNewsletter will include as a regular feature, different approaches in the world of therapy, known as Therapy Landscape. Watch this feature for challenges in therapy, new methods, and alternative healing resources. Any members who specialize in a field of therapy or healing are invited to submit articles on their experiences. Please contact copper_beech |
Social Anxiety or Social Phobia (SA/SP) can be characterized by an inordinate fear of interaction with other people, a feeling that everyone you meet that is not familiar to |
All of the following information has been included at the request of the forum owners, who are members of a forum in The Saferoom Project. These forums are NOT part of The Project, and operate under different administrative requirements for membership. If you have a forum that you would like to have announced in the SRP eNewsletter, please send the information that you would like included to copper_beech. We ask that you NOT use The Saferoom Project post boards or mailing list to announce other forums. Thank you!
Forums run by SR members |
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Soul Survivors Sanctuary
Spiritual Survival |
Soul Survivor Sanctuary is a nondenominational
club for survivors of sexual abuse to work together to reclaim their
spiritual identity. Any belief system is welcome as long as you are
nonjudgemental to the beliefs of others. This forum is located at
Yahoo.
Spiritual Survival is a discussion mailing list based at Onelist, focusing on healing methods, providing thought-provoking sharing for daily spiritual health. Contact truthsayer62 for more information. |
| SR Open Mic Weekly Chat | Hosted by mrs88888, Tuesdays at 10pm EST. This chat is for sharing and discussing original writings of members, and significant lyrics and poetry by other writers. To find out more about how to participate in Open Mic, join the SRPOpenMic mailing list at Onelist. To receive the poetry read at these chats, sendmail to SRPOpenMic for more information. |
| Soul Survivor Forum | This forum is for adults, over the age of 21, who wish to focus on alternative methods of healing. There are both post board and chat formats. Contact copper_beech for more information. |
| SRP Round Robin Weekly Chat | Hosted by copper_beech and oak_leef, Wednesdays at 9pm EST. This chat is a closed on-topic chat, open to all SRP members. With a support group format, each week we focus on a specific topic, some carried over week-to-week. All are welcome to attend, though we ask that you please be on time, and honor the chat format. Virtual snacks abound. |
| POSitive Partners of Survivors | A place for the Partners of the SA to get the support they need. A place for them to vent, get advise and even some insight from Survivors. We are currently posting and we have a weekly chat as well. Contact Hrtfelt32via email for more information, or Hrtfelt32 or SilencedAngel by Messenger. |
| Gentle Dove Studios | Gari's Online Studio... To learn more about Gari and see her digital artistry, check out this fabulous site. |
Survivor Forums with which SR Members are affiliated |
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| SRP Partners | The SRP Partners forum, for partners, friends, and family of sexual abuse survivors, is for supporters of survivors. For more info, write macaroni_duck. |
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An advocacy organization focusing on the legal penalties of sex offenders. For more info, write Sandra Corell. |
| Lorretta Woodbury Online Discussion Forum | General survivor discussion panel moderated by Lorrain (in Cincy ;). Contact her at kkprncs@fuse.net for more information. |
In honor of National Poetry Month, we are featuring our first poetry submission from a reader.
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where is that stream that flows continuous down the middle of two people that stream love that has a source in hills so high one can not see their tops in the heavens only feel that it draws from there the stream whose mouth spills into us all that is all that we are into the universe manifest heaven here how is it that we know its extremes and not the beauty of what lies beween us? how is it that we can not flow? ~skh ©1998 |
The founders would like to thank everyone for their continued support and continual efforts to keep The Saferoom Project a positive, healthy, and safe atmosphere!!!
The SRP eNewsletter is mailed out on the 15th of every month, with pertinent information about The Saferoom Project, its affiliated resources, related forums, and events. If you would like to include an announcement in the eNewsletter, please send it to copper_beech by the 8th of each month.All other inquiries regarding writing for the eNewsletter should be directed to the same email. Letters to the Editor should be addressed to Editor@saferoom.org.
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