One Earth Connections
Elevating and transforming lives through advocacy with support and preventive strategies. Cultivating a culture of awareness, empowerment and freedom from the lasting effects of bullying, assault, violence and abuse. Offerings include scholarships to assist victims and their families that have been affected by abuse and provide emotional, physical, behavioral and financial support.
This picture represents the effects abuse can have on your appearance, happiness and health. I was married to a narcissistic, master manipulator and controlling verbal abuser. It took me losing 18 lbs, my hair falling out in clumps and sleeping with one eye open for a couple of hours each night for me to make a change.
To make matters worse, I was too embarrassed and ashamed to tell anyone about my living hell. I couldn’t believe how I, an independent, educated, successful woman could be in this situation. I knew the if I could be in this situation, anybody could and I wanted to make a difference to help stop bullying, abuse and violence against women, children and animals.
I found out about a boy in our neighborhood that had been abused by his biological parents so badly that he had neurological issues and he had to have braces on his legs with metal crutches to walk. This little boy was adopted by a loving couple. In order to keep his muscles from atrophy swimming had become a big part of the little boy’s therapy. The parents found a house for sale with an indoor pool and were excited to make an offer. The pool was indoors and would allow the little boy to swim, daily, all year round. At the last minute an offer came in that was higher than their offer and more than they could afford to pay.
In cases like this little boy and his family, we would have stepped in as an advocate to negotiate between the seller and the family, which would allow the seller to write off some portion of the sale and One Earth Connections non-profit could have made up the difference in the price allowing this little boy and his family to buy this home with the much needed indoor pool to support his therapy.
It wasn’t until my 40’s as I began to look inwardly, that I realized how my childhood abuse had affected my self esteem, self worth, feelings of worthiness as well as my ability to love and be loved. My childhood abuse had also affected my decisions where I ended up in the relationship described above with my hair falling out, losing weight and sleeping with one eye open.
Abuse alters the person you were meant to be. Abuse kills you from the inside out. Abuse affects how you feel about yourself and others affecting every decision you make in life. It is up to you to use your voice to speak up! seek help, educate ourselves and get counseling. Most of all, we can not keep quiet! You can not do this alone. You are not alone, we are here to help!
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