hi everyone! i am really excited to start this blog. i can not wait to hear what so many of you have on your minds. i am getting so many emails from girls telling me that they are healing from sexual abuse. recently i heard from a girl that was 13 years old. she took "invisible girls" out of her local library and after reading it she told her mother about her abuse. her mom actually was able to help her - this 13 year old says that now she has stopped pulling her hair, she sleeps at night, and her nitemares have stopped!!! yeaahhh.
i can not tell you how amazing it is to hear these kinds of experiences. what is on your mind? do you want to share an experience? tell us about a film you have seen recently that was powerful for you? tell us what helps you heal? i would love to hear from you. xxoo dr. patti
Friday, January 11
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I have had lots of things that help me. My first help was a website called Pandora's Aquarium. It's a Tori Amos inspired message board and chat for survivors. It helped me so much to have others to talk to.
About a year and a half after being on the message board I read Dr. Patti's book and it really helped me. It reminded of how important using my voice is.
I was finally able to tell my parents about what happened to me with the help of my counselor. I also got my dad to read Dr. Patti's book. He said it helped him to know what I was going through and to know what I needed to do in order to further heal.
wow, you are my first comment! and what a wonderful one. so glad you told your parents and counselor. i am really thrilled you are doing so well. it is such an amazing help when a parent can acknowledge you and know that you will heal. tell your dad i am so pleased that he has read my book and that he is helping you to heal and move on. thanks so much butterflykiddo!!
Dr. P your book is amazing, I have a friend who also was abused, and I told her about "Invisible Girls" and she told me that it helped her start to heal. Your book also helped me! Im very happy that I had a chance to read your book.
Hi Everyone,
I'm so excited that Dr. Patti put up a blog for survivors to post on. I really need this kind of anonymous support. I'm really looking forward to talking with everyone who posts.
Have a great weekend!
I have read your book girl thrive and I am happy to say I no longer pretend it never happened. I came out at age nine I was molested for two years and I could never talk about it with my mother who was raped when she was younger. I now have a stronger bond with her and she has even read your book with me! You not only helped me cope but you created this wole new relationship between my mother and me. Thank you sooo so so much for what your doing......and KUDOS to the wonderful Dr.Patti!!
I have justed started to search for resources to help myself. I have never really talked about the abuse that i endured, those who are close to me know that i was violently raped but that is all anyone really knows. That is all i have ever been able to say, but there is much more than that. I have never actually spoken of what happened to anyone and i am now thirty-three years old and have never been able to stand up for myself and have no voice. I know i am older than what this website was intended for but if you could post some good resources for someone of my age group that would be of great help to me and others.
I found girlthrive on the internet kind of by accident, but it was a good kind of accident, its helped me so much! I wrote Dr Patti a e-mail and she ended up sending me a copy of invisible girls to read. Its such an amazing book which has already helped me so much and continues to do so. Everytime i get angry, down or triggered about my abuse i go back to it and read a part of it which really helps me and gets me through. Reading Dr Patti's book was the beginning of my healing. After reading it I moved out of home, told my second person ever about my abuse face to face (the first time was a bad experience for me so this was a big step for me) and begain counselling. It wasn't easy, and things got a lot worse before they got better and there is still times that i struggle a lot, but my life is definatly a lot better than it was before.
So thanks heaps Dr Patti for helping me and all these other girls! you and your book are both amazing! Your definatly a special person! :D
Love Megan
I loved the novel "Invisible Girls" I've read it so many times and annotated it and it's been a lot of help now that I've started dealing with the rape that I endured at the hands of my grandpa for quite a few years. I've found talking about it to other people who know what being abused is like helps a lot. I haven't gone for therapy yet but I'm hoping after I finish getting open heart surgery I'll have enough strength to.
Love,
Rebecca
i just wanna say to anonymous (and any other survivors out there) that its never too late to start dealing with these things! it takes a lot of strength to face what happenned to us but in the end, you do become stronger for it. i started talking about my abuse when i was 22. almost 10 years later i am doing great. my friends know about what happened, i am able to get on with my life normally and i also speak out about abuse which helps others and me. you can do it!
Hey Anonymous... for you and everyone else... I believe that The Wounded Heart book by Dr. Dan Allender is an AMMZAING book that helped me and is still helping me to deal with my sexual, physical, and emotional abuse. I’m 30 now, and I’m still going through a lot… But so believe that God had put so many people in my life to walk with me through this journey of healing… and it can be for you too!
I found your book Dr Patti, and I read it. I read it over and over again. I even got a copy for myself. I knew I wasn't by myself, but things still kept me from speaking up. I really think everyone should read Invisible Girls because it is truly inspirational. It doesn't tell lies! It shows reality! Even if you were not abused read it, you will understand what women go through. I will tell you one thing for sure it is not FUN as many guys may think it is.I want to say sorry to all those women who go through this. I am sorry. I know how you feel, because me to- I am a survivor.As you long as you believe there is hope, anything is possible.
Mandy
girls and ladies, i am so thrilled to hear from all of you, and how beautiful are you all! you just keep reaching out to each other and giving each other love and encouragement and support. there is something very special about a sex abuse survivor. you know you can endure anything- and live through it. and you all have lived through and gone on to excel, succeed, and reach out to others. i am in awe and in such deep admiration and respect of all of you. please keep writing on the blog to each other! love xo dr. p
I just have to say that over this past year that I have been in therapy I have met so many courageous young girls and women on forums, in the hospital when I was there, and at a treatment center I went to in February (Timberlawn-Dallas, TX)!! So many teens and young women that are already on the road to healing. You know, when girls tell and they are heard and validated, they do not become 38 year olds still in therapy for a dissociative disorder. When girls can tell, be heard, and validated they do exactly what drpatti's site implies.....they THRIVE!!! Kudos to each and everyone of you for finding the courage to reach out......and to having the courage to face the issues head on and do the work of therapy. You are unbelievably strong, and I admire each of you even though I do not know you. I could not tell, and for awhile I was hard on myself wishing I had told, but the reality is that I was so trapped. As little kids we are so dependent on our parents and they control everything. I lived in fear that parents could manipulate their way into and out of anything. I know I was very small and yes I was trapped. You guys are also blessed in that you are growing up in a time and place where people are more aware of this. No one talked about any of it when I was growing up. I was raped on a date once when I was 14, and I never called it raped until I was about 19 or 20 and I happened to see a show on Oprah. Had never heard of Date Rape before that. I just wanted to take a moment and acknowledge the courage you young people have....(as if I'm old.....LOL....I'm 38), but yoiu guys that are getting help in your teens and early 20's....that takes a lot of courage and strength and you will do well in life for sure. It takes time, but you have such beautiful lives ahead of you.
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