Silver celebrates the Independence of our country, the good old USA. She is also looking forward to the day of independence from all our trauma.

Sponsors look for chances to support the services they feel are important to their communities and the world, but what other reasons might you find in these tough financial times?

Silver shares her tips on making the most of the conference if you are survivor. Her personal experience with this gives you insight into how to get the most out of it and take care of yourself in the process.

This life dream of mine is finally taking form in the form of this conference. A conference like this has not happened in 15 years and its amazing to see it exploding in the past two months.

As an analytically oriented practitioner, I tend to look for symbolism and meaning in everything. I always want to know why. Why what? Why anything, why everything! In that vein, I tend to view analytic thinking as a sort of a prism, refracting the light differently, in beautiful color, from each angle.

Theophostic Prayer is a Christian approach to helping people find complete resolution of the emotional pain associated with trauma and abuse. It was founded by Dr. Ed M. Smith in the mid nineties in the context of helping sexual abuse victims. It is presently being used by mental health professionals, pastors and lay ministers in over 140 countries worldwide with very positive reports. There is continuing research being done to help to establish empirical evidence of its effectiveness.

What starts the dissociative splitting process? Believing the lie that "it didn't happen" is the very foundation of dissociation.

I had epidurals done today, so I am still a bit groggy. One of the effects of having been sexually abused is that I cannot got to sleep for these procedures...

Parts work

Buying a new house I am lucky enough to be able to set up a "safe spot" how important that his for me and when I see that others don't have that chance, I worry for them....