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The Survivor Archives: Volunteers Needed!!
Dec 26, 2006








We're looking for as many volunteers as possible who are willing to complete an archive for eventual posting on our website. The greatest gift that we can give one another as survivors is hope. Hope that we're not alone. Hope that we're not on this journey in vain. And hope that healing is possible. That is my personal mission. But I can't do it alone. That is why a dear friend and I have completed the contruction of The Survivor Archives. And that is why I'm asking for your help now. Each week I work with survivors in the construction of their archives. Each week I post a new Archive to be read by our growing audience.

What is an Archive?
An archive is a expression of a survivors healing. It includes the following:


Bio:
Each survivor offers a short biography about themselves themselves, explaining where they're at now in live's. It offers a place for them to talk about how've they've made it to where they presently find themselves, and what goals they have for the future. In biographies we ask that concentration be placed on the story of each survivor's healing, more so than of the abuse itself. We ask who they've become? What matters to them today? What are their goals in life, and what have they accomplished thus far? We want to concentrate not on what they haven't done - but on what they have done. We ask to keep focus on what they do have in their lives, rather than what they don't.


Q & A: They answer a series of nine questions such as:
"What is the best advice you've ever received in healing?",
"What has and hasn't worked in their healing?" and
"What has been their three biggest obstacles in their healing?"


Artwork done in therapy, such as a painting or poetry is shared. Personal expression is an extremely important aspect of healing. Abuse clouds it's victims in burdens of verbal and emotional secrecy. Its wasn't okay to feel, or speak. So now a very important aspect of healing is expressing those bottled up emotions. The pain, fear, anger, and grief must be released, and this is often done through writing, painting, drawing, poetry, music, photography etc. Journal entries are very acceptable. There are no limits in art, and in the mind's ability to speak out.

Letters are written by each survivor for their archives to an aspect of their abuse - such as:
to their abuser,
to themselves as a child,
to a child being abused, etc..

This last section will hopefully allow featured survivors with a chance to do some inward reflection, and to allow themselves to open up on a very powerful level. A letter that has already been written sometime during the course of therapy is perfectly okay to use, and even encouraged. However, there are no by limitations on who or to what this letter is addressed to.


Could I Be Featured?
Yes! We're looking for as many volunteers as we can get. Ask and I'll do all I can to see that it happens. You'll first need to fill out a request form and once it is accepted you can begin working on it. Then, it is my job to help you in perfecting your archive until it is ready to be posted. Theres no time limit. It can take you the next five years and we'll be perfectly okay with that. As long as you'll eventually complete it, that is all that we ask.

If you're interested in helping to spread the word, in being featured in an archive, or if you have any questions please contact us at survivor.archives@gmail.com.

Joanna Doane
Co-Author


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