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  CashaK89897 (09/26/09)
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  LaVivre (05/21/09)

  Big hugs to all members. Peace and Blessings to us all for now and always. Love LaVivre
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  CymryM (05/09/09)

  Happy Mother's Day! I'm wishing everyone peace, joy and many blessings!
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  CymryM (04/14/09)

  Thinking of you all and praying for the best for everyone! Hugs!!
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  khabri (04/03/09)

  Thank you so much Cymry for your support and dedication to this group!! Still sorting things out but am popping into see how everything is going! *hugs*
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  CymryM (03/19/09)

  I'd like to send a special shout-out to Khabri and wish her well as she takes some time away from our group for her own healing! Thank you, Khabri, for making me Admin of this group. I will do my best to support and contribute and keep this group strong! HUGS to all of you for being here and contributing. And to all those who are simply observing, perhaps you will bless us with your thoughts soon! Love to all! Cymry
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  CymryM (03/03/09)

  Hello everyone! I just want to say how wonderful it is to have been invited here by Khabri to offer my help. If anyone has questions, please ask and I will do my best to answer them. You can also send me private messages. CymryM: (http://dailystrength.org/people/361435) I look forward to getting to know all of you! Stay strong. You are all beautiful souls! Love and light! Cymry www.CymryMongan.com
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  tammyashiloh (02/16/09)

  Couldn't find a spot on here to post this, but I feel it is very important for all Physical and Verbal abuse survivors to read. I wrote it myself in my journal and got tremendous feed back. Would of liked to post it on the main billboard but couldn't figure out how. So hugs to all my sister survivors I hope my story/poem is something you can take from or identify with. To whom it may concern Monday, January 12, 2009 | A Poem/Artistic story MY JOURNEY I was a beautiful flower born unto this earth amongst the poisonous plants and weeds. They taught me some good but mostly about pain, hurt and disappointments. As I grew my pedals fell off one by one, finding out those you thought were your world were just as scared and confused as you were. They forced their sins on you forgetting you were just a little flower who couldn't take on such big responsibilities and burdens. But you loved them and felt such guilt if you said no and turned your back on them. So you took it and you took it until you just couldn't take it anymore, because in the middle of being the one who had to take care of everyone else you forgot to take care of yourself. You were no longer this beautiful little flower you use to be. You were old and crushed and wilted right down to the ground that you couldn't even lift one leaf. Oh there were people every now and then that gave you a few drops of water just to keep you under their control and make you think they had it in them to love you like you deserved. Even a few rays of sunshine got through those poison plants and weeds that sheltered you from the life you thought you were going to have. Only to find out it was false sunshine. Only a volted lamp of light in the prison you found out you had become trapped in over the years. Someone had put you there when you weren't looking to keep them from having to face their fears and do things for themselves. But now I am free, I am out from under their shadow. I am nobody's enabler, no ones excuse why they failed. No ones escape from their responsibilities to seek forgiveness for their sins. For I have forgiven them for being weak and forcing their weakness on me to carry them through. I am forgetting the past as so not to ruin my present and my future. Now I'm starting to rise up and grow in the real sunshine I found when I left my abusers behind. I am dancing in the rain and drinking the feeling of accomplishment I am finding my pedals I lost that made me who I was because I know I was happy once upon a time. And this is where my fairytale begins because fairytales can come true if you don't let others tell you there's no such thing. I am almost a beautiful flower again and even though I am no longer little. I say what happens next not them! For no matter how much you love someone, you have to save yourself first and then watch to see if they sink or swim and you might be surprised but either way if you stay with someone whose drowning they just cling to you and take you down until you both drown. Have faith sister survivors whether the person who has abused you makes it through or not it's not yours to bare. You gave everything you could, get out! Before you lose all your pedals, wilt to the ground. Shrivel up and turn to dust. *It's only been five months since I left my abuser and though many things have happened to me that made me want to go running back to the old familiar. I thought I am soooo broken why would I go back to the person who broke me, to find comfort and repair. So I stopped and I picked myself up and went through so much in such a short time but i'm determined to make it out of my Hell no matter what life throws at me. I AM A SURVIVOR and I will not let them take that away from me, it's just evil trying to make me lose my faith. It constantly torments and tortures us, until we either give in or break free. My day in the sunshine is coming I know it in my heart. I will make it and I am sending out all my prayers and all my good faith and love that all of you make it too. Anyone who reads this know it's meant for you or I wouldn't of been inspired to write it and you wouldn't of been inspired to read it. GOD only knows love and hasn't forgot about anyone. We all just have to find our way in our own time. Look for the signs there all around us trying to help us figure out which way to go. Sometimes we get lost and take the difficult road through life but know you will make it. Watch for the easier path trust your instincts and you will find it. Fight the temptation of the weak and feeble minded. Stay strong and grow strong and beautiful again. Don't ever let anyone take your sunshine away.* **tammyashiloh original**
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  LilWonder (02/13/09)

  **HUGS** for EVERYONE!!!
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  JUNE4 (02/10/09)

  i feel i am just existing

"We live as Love, thriving and participating as a community in celebration of our Oneness with All." This group is for those men and women who wish to heal from toxic and often abusive relationships. Coming together in unity with love, compassion, and understanding for those in pain. To each of you my family here, inshallah we will break the spells that bind us to become the beautiful monarch butterflies free to define ourselves how we wish. Visit us at: http://www.dvmemorial.com