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  Six Steps to Shattering the Silence of Sexual Abuse

  Posted on April 24, 2015 by admin in PTSD Blog.

  Guest blog by Dawn Scott Jones www.DawnJones.org I wish I had a different story. I wish it wasn’t one of horrific pain that left my life in a pile of ashes, filled with shame and sorrow. But I don’t have a different story. What I do have, however, is the power to decide how my […]

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  Broken Places, Part 2

  Posted on July 24, 2013 by admin in PTSD Blog.

  The darkness. The compulsion to die. I couldn’t shake the obsession… no matter what I did.   I prayed. I read the Bible. I ate. I ate more. I got high. And tried to get higher each time I used.   I got numb. I zoned out. For months, my prayers had been short and to the point: “HELP!” […]

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