Showing posts with label Darlene Ouimet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Darlene Ouimet. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

This Week on Empowering Solutions Thursday August 18th 2pm EST


Lets talk about "self"; self love, self confidence, self acceptance....and whats that got to do with healing from an abusive past? What is it about "self care" that we seem to always put on the bottom of the list? And - how is this an empowering solution?

Join Darlene Ouimet of www.emergingfrombroken.com and Susan Kingsley-Smith this Thursday at 2pm EST at Empowering Solutions on BTR!

Follow this link: http://www.blogtalkradio.c​om/empoweringsolutions/201​1/08/18/breaking-free-from​-broken-with-susan-darlene

Empowering Solutions - every 1st and 3rd Thursday at 2pm EST (USA)

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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Seek Knowledge, find Wisdom, live your Truth!

A quick note today to bring y'all :) up to speed with the happenings over at Empowering Solutions on Blog Talk Radio this month on August 4th and 18th....

This Thursday August 4th 2pm EST (USA)

Guest: Christina Enevoldsen from overcomingsexualabuse.com

Our topic: Survivors of childhood oppression/abuse/neglect often find themselves in abusive relationships in adulthood. A false method of “empowerment” is to accept the blame for the abuse. The truth is that we are empowered to stop the abusive cycle, but only by realizing that though we aren’t the problem, we are the solution. Coming up this week on Empowering Solutions we’ll be talking with Christina Enevoldsen, Co-Founder of the online resource overcomingsexualabuse.com and  would like to invite you to join us this Thursday, August 4th at 2pm EST at Empowering Solutions on BTR!

Tune in again on August 18th at 2pm EST

Topic: Breaking Free from Broken!

Join myself and Darlene Ouimet from Emerging From Broken as we continue to discuss the issues connected to learning to recognize and overcome the many subtle issues faced by many who are seeking to discover how they too can emerge from - and live WAY beyond - that place of broken! 

PS....

Have you joined the ES community at Facebook? Click here to get there! 

PPSS...

Have you signed up for stuff? (drop your email in the box at the top left of this post!) 

May you have a most wonderful time creating your own "best life" this week!




Friday, July 22, 2011

Friday Follow Ups and Back to Basics!

Seek Knowledge, find Wisdom, live your Truth!

Today I wanted to get back to basics...in my Blogging, my advocacy, my writing, my purpose and my passion.

Wha a?

The past couple of weeks my time and attention has been split....pretty thin.

Here's a few things I've been contributing to and working on....

Last week I was Guest Blogger at Emerging From Broken where...


I shared parts of my story in more depth and detail than I ever have in the past. Ever. Anywhere. 

Whats it about?

Learning to identify how I finally came to understand what it meant and means to have my "self" suffocated and my body and being used as an object to serve others.

And - how in this process I also discovered the path to freedom and made that shift from coping, managing and surviving to...


Living.


My best life. 


Ever. :)


Check it out here.

What else have I been up to?


Well....I got kind of involved in a little Petition to New York Times that has turned into kind of a big deal as in less than 5 days we've garnered almost 80% of our initial goal from supporters and comments from around the world. 

You can check it out and read the petition and the comments here. 


Some of the comments...wow. Just wow. 

Check it out at the link above and if this is an issue you can get on board with, leave your signature there then...


Join us at the new Community Group for this Petition to the NYT by clicking here. This will be sort of like our Ground Zero as we continue to keep folks informed and involved in this groundbreaking endeavor.


What else?


Every day there are some great conversations going on at the Empowering Solutions Community page at Facebook. Every day I post and share on a variety of issues and topics faced by SRBT (survivors of really bad things:)) 

Drop by and give us a "like" so you can recieve the daily notes on your own FB wall:)

Any more?


Well, I did recently set up a twitter account for just the ES stuff....


You can follow me on twitter by going here: www.twitter.com/susan_ks


And?


I finally mastered the technology to put an email sign up form here on A Journey! 


Now - if you are interested for me to send you STUFF...:)

All you have to do is drop your email in the box up top that says...

SEND ME STUFF! 


(This is different than your reading subscription, k? :))


I'm pretty sure theres something else....


Oh yeah!


I got overambitious and thought about expanding ES to 4 times a month...

(and actually announced that I was doing this not-so-well-thought-out-thing :-/


doh!


and then had some (very wise:)) second thoughts....


Empowering Solutions on BTR will maintain at twice monthly...


the 1st and 3rd Thursdays


at 2pm EST (USA)....


for now anyway:)


Coming up in August!


August 4th - Christina Enveldson, Founder of www.overcomingsexualabuse.com 

August 18th - Breaking Free from Broken with Darlene Ouimet of www.emergingfrombroken.com

Ok then. 

Guess I have been a little busy:)

I think I'll take a break and see what comes up next:) 

Thanks for sharing the journey!

Susan_Ks:)

The past no longer has to steal our todays and destroy our tomorrows:) If you are looking for information and resources to learn how to learn to live beyond broken....

Welcome. Thats what we do. :) 

Sharing the light, the hope and the journey:)

Stay tuned!






Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Reminder that ES is Expanding, Next Weeks Q&A and I finally got the techsmarts to put an email sign up form on the blog!

Seek Knowledge, find Wisdom, live your Truth!

I know you're all busy and get more than enough emails so will keep this short and quick....:)


This Thursday on July 21st you can tune into Empowering Solutions on Blog Talk Radio by clicking here and join Coach and Blogger Darlene Ouimet and myself on the newest addition to the ES lineup...


Breaking Free from Broken!


Each month Darlene and I will share from our own journey the path we've followed that brought us from that place of deep despair and hopelessness to finally emerge on the other side of broken!


And a quick heads up for next week on Empowering Solutions...



Every 4th week we'll be answering YOUR questions about your own journey or the topics from this months ES shows!

So jot your notes down...

Send us an email with your questions to...susankingsleysmith@gmail.com

Or plan now to join us on July 27th for our first...

Livechat! 


Update 7/21/2011


Oops! 


Jumping out of the gate early is never a smart thing to do!


Empowering Solutions IS growing, morphing and changing...


but not just yet!


For now - you can find us on Blog Talk Radio every 1st and 3rd Thursday at 2pm EST (USA)....


August 4th - Christina Enveldson, Founder of Overcoming Sexual Abuse will join us!


August 18th - Breaking Free from Broken with Darlene Ouimet of Emerging From Broken!


More to come!


The rest...


eh...:)


In time! 


Onward and upward! 


Have a terrific Wednesday! 


Susan_Ks :)


PS Thanks for your patience as I find my footing with these changes (oy!) and stay tuned! 


PPSS....


I forgot to mention....I recently figured out how to put an email sign up form here on the blog...


and....this is different than your reading subscription.


This is for you to say "its ok for you to send me stuff"!


"Stuff" being defined as news and happenings in my world that I think you might be interested in that I've not published on the blog here (yet) or is available elsewhere....:) 


To sign up for stuff:) go to the box at the top left of this post where it says...


Sign me up for stuff!!


Send questions! 


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Thursday, July 7, 2011

Look! Something New Has Been Added! Breaking Free From Broken Debut!


Susan Kingsley-Smith, CIC, CFFS




A new addition to the Empowering Solutions Community Resources!

Breaking Free From Broken!

One of the core issues that survivors of abuse and other family dysfunction face is a chronic sense of worthlessness and powerlessness that wreaks havoc over our lives and relationships. 

Darlene Ouimet, CTACC
Starting this month Blogger, Author and Coach Darlene Ouimet and I will bring you some empowering solutions on breaking free from and learning to live beyond broken as we share 1/1 with you how we both found freedom from broken and you can too!


New Show: Breaking Free From Broken!

Hosts: Susan Kingsley-Smith, CIC, CFFS and Darlene Ouimet, CTACC

Date: Every 3rd Thursday beginning July 21 2011

Time: 2pm EST (USA)



Where you can find Susan and Darlene

You can find Darlene at her blog Emerging From Broken and at the Emerging From Broken Community on Facebook.


Are you ready? 

Lets do this!

Seek Knowledge, Find Wisdom....Live Your Truth!

Sunday, July 3, 2011

It Was All About Avoidance

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One of the things about the healing journey that I found to be (hmmph....) not so helpful...was when the focus was on the behaviors that had been my "normal" in and following the trauma experiences...but were now not so helpful.  


Darlene Ouimet of Emerging From Broken had this to say recently about the change that changed her life.... 


The whole key was uncovering and discovering how my belief system about myself and the world, had formed and realizing it was full of lies that I believed about myself. As I replaced the lies with the truth, the coping methods fell away; because I didn’t need them anymore. 
                                                                                                                                 ~ Darlene Ouimet


Very often in the journey the focus becomes the behavior.


Well, why wouldn't it? 


Thats what we see.


But like Darlene - it was when I started looking at the issues underneath the coping methods that in the trauma were helpful - but had become "maladaptive" because these behaviors were affecting my ability to create and live the life that I wanted for myself. 


Listen into one of the archived shows from last year at Empowering Solutions at Heal My PTSD at Blog Talk Radio:


"Its All About Avoidance"



Listen to internet radio with Heal My PTSD on Blog Talk Radio


Find the archives of Empowering Solutions here.

Seek Knowledge, find Wisdom, live your Truth!

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

This Month on Empowering Solutions!

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Tune in this Thursday June 2, 2011 at 6pm EST/5pm CST/3pm Pacific time (USA) to hear Darlene Ouimet of the popular recovery blog www.emergingfrombroken.com talk about the differences and difficulties she faced as she faced a variety of mental health diagnosis including that of PTSD in her healing journey and - how she became empowered when she began to battle a broken belief system that finally allowed her to emerge from broken!


You can find us here this Thursday June 2nd at 6pm EST (USA): 
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/empoweringsolutions/2011/06/02/darlene-ouimet-on-dealing-with-diagnosis


 Seek Knowledge, find Wisdom, live your Truth!