EmpoweredOKC
Status: The truth will set you free...but first it will piss you off!
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Here's the basic story. I had come out of my building and saw a man carrying a woman by her throat, savagely pummeling her as he dragged her toward his pickup truck. I shouted at him, the gist of...
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Admit something:Everyone you see, you say to them, "Love me."Of course, you do not do this out loud; Otherwise,Someone would call the cops.Still, though, think about this,This great...
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I'll be away from civilization doing a prayer/fast ceremony next week.You're on your own. Don't become "Where The Wild Things Are"!
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One of the trade-offs of my new job is that rather than working directly with survivors, I work within the "system" of our state to develop victim-care programs. It's meaningful and necessary work,...
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I have taught people, every day, to affirm their own worth, to see themselves as worthy and sacred. I have taught people every day that being proud of themselves is not arrogance, which has been a...
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I'd like to use this journal to periodically process some of my feelings about losing my mom a week ago. Mom made it 10 11:50 PM on April 16; ten more minutes and it would have been my birthday. I...
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Was just notified that mom's surgery is complete. No bypass was needed, just a valve repair. This was frightening to us because she was precariously unhealthy going in to surgery: failing kidneys,...
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Rape rates in Oklahoma seem to be starting a decine:2006 1,4842007 1,5582008 1,453Over 1 in 8 adult women, or nearly 174,000 adult women in Oklahoma has been the victim of forcible rape sometime in...
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It seems that we have a really difficult time in our culture calling rape "rape." Plus we are inclined to give celebrities a free pass when it comes to sexual assault. In a recent reference to Kobe...
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From the book "What Difference Do It Make?" (the follow-up to "Same Kind of Different as Me"): Denver spoke slowly and deliberately, keeping me pinned with that eyeball, ignoring the Starbucks...
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All life is sacred,And every moment is a gift.We can come to that awareness joyfully, or carried in on a stretcher.
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So I've just returned from Washington, D.C. where I attended a three-day training at the Sofitel, around the corner from the White House, with supreme accomodations courtesy of the Fed. Directors...
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Whoops! I meant for this to be a journal, not a forum post. This isn't forum stuff! My family is a Christmas-celebrating family, by which I mean we become slightly manic at this time of year. Like...
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10. "Just Sayin" End every sentence with this, really. 9. "On the real" No. No. Not on the real. It's been real, "on the real." For real, yo. 8. "What the hey"Where do I even start with this one? 7....
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Studies: Campbell, L., Keegan, A., Cybulska, B., Bybee, D., & Forster, G. (2007). "Prevalence of mental health problems and deliberate self-harm in complaints of sexual violence." Journal of...
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