Click Off: My Top 10 Website, Links & Resources

These are my favorites.

1.  The Mama Bear Effect because let’s start with preventing child abuse so they aren’t hurt and don’t have to spend untold hours and dollars on healing or to be able to enjoy sex or feel safe in the body. Does anyone really feel children need to be abused, neglected, exploited or stigmatized? I can’t even imagine the state of the world if we could just get all agree to work on this. Well, a powerful woman who is a mother and using the expertise of authority, passion and caring created an entire campaign to prevent childhood abuse. All parents, teachers, coaches and survivors please if you only visit one site make it this one. Plus, isn’t the name fantastic? http://themamabeareffect.org/
2. Ms. Magazine, because feminists have been and still are telling the truth about sexual violence much more than mainstream media. http://www.msmagazine.com/
3. Rape, Abuse, Incest National Network (RAINN) has 24-hour support, statistics and a speaker’s bureau. http://www.rainn.org/
4. Pandora’s Project: For and by survivors of incest and rape. http://www.pandys.org/
5. Laura Davis, yes, she’s a survivor and co-author of The Courage to Heal but this writing resource is online, free, has weekly prompts and she responds to EVERY piece of writing. I don’t know how. It’s survivor friendly but it’s all about the writing. http://lauradavis.net/category/prompts/
6. Super Soul Sunday with Oprah or TED Talks? Educational and interesting people talking about issues that impact real life and soul stuff. https://www.ted.com/talks/browse http://www.oprah.com/own-super-soul-sunday/super-soul-sunday.html
7. The Moth because the sub-titles is “True Stories Told Live” and it appeals to the writer, artist and regular human being. There’s big “T” trauma and little “t” trauma and everyone has one or both. It’s not only part of life that gets survived, endured, healed and recovered from but it can also be fantastic story material. http://themoth.org/
8. Health Journeys because long before Bessel Van der Kolk was writing about yoga and trauma (fabulous stuff) Belleruth Naperstek was talking about how talk therapy wasn’t enough, how guided imagery is basically free and helpful and how one can recover from post-traumatic stress in ways that don’t minimize the impact. http://www.healthjourneys.com/default.asp
9. YouTube, yes, really, http://www.youtube.com/ because it’s not only the tweens who benefit from being able to look up virtually anything about everything.
10. Dr. Rick Hanson who has made mixing Buddhism and Neuroscience almost hip and trendy and because he doesn’t (but could) charge a fortune for disseminating information about how the brain can be re-wired for happiness. http://www.rickhanson.net/

o.k., I also love reading http://www.elephantjournal.com/ and going to Nancy Slonim Aronie’s Writing Workshops http://chilmarkwritingworkshop.com/ and reading http://www.literarymama.com/ and hearing about programs such as Warrior Writers http://warriorwriters.org/. My favorite facebook posters: Cheryl Strayed, Elizabeth Gilbert, Oriah Mountain Dreamer and Annie Lamott. They are honest and fearless and talented writers.

If you have sites you want to share with others, please send them to me and I’ll post them here or in SIS (Survivor Inspiring Survivor).