Resurrection After Rape Community Group
Discussion, question-and-answer, general social support, and journal processing for progress-oriented rape survivors. No crisis, no damaging or triggering conflicts--this is for individuals who want to contribute to collective, cooperative action toward the goal of making actual PROGRESS through rape trauma. Much of this work is based on the book "Resurrection After...
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." -- Theodore Roosevelt, April 23, 1910
At first, I adjusted my own beliefs an dreams because I believed that they were more wise than I. But, as it turns out, I am almost surrounded by people cloaked in fear. Who believe that even dreams can be dangerous if their fulfilment is not guaranteed. Stifling.
It's true; I am more of a dreamer than a doer. I plan but rarely complete. But then, in the face of critics and other peoples fears that had been hidden from my conscious...it's not difficult to see why that might be.
Risk is healthy, risk is worth it. Risk is living and I want to live not exist. I fall, we all fall, but I want to run along anyway because I know I can get back up again. This place taught me that and it taught me what is shared in the quote.