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Ending the Silence for Sexual Abuse Survivors
Pandora’s Box, a website dedicated to childhood sexual abuse has chilling data; it is estimated that there are 60 million survivors of childhood sexual abuse in America today. With all the bad new lately about sex offenders and child sexual abuse, a solution for how to heal the survivors of this heinous crime is needed.
The Lamplighters, a rapidly growing movement for survivors of child sexual abuse, incest, sexual assault, rape and domestic violence has grown from one chapter in the small northern Arizona town of Cottonwood to 38 chapters in four countries. The founder, Marjorie McKinnon, has also written three books on recovering from child sexual abuse. The adult version of REPAIR Your Life: A Program for Recovery from Incest & Childhood Sexual Abuse was recently released by Loving Healing Press. The children’s version will be out sometime in July, 2008.
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June 10, 2008 (FPRC) -- Marjorie McKinnon is the founder of The Lamplighters, a rapidly growing movement for survivors of child sexual abuse and incest. The Lamplighters, originally conceived as a support group for those going through the REPAIR program that she spent three years researching and developing, soon became a stand alone movement that has grown in the space of a few months from one chapter in the small northern Arizona community where McKinnon lives to 38 chapters in four countries. With so much recent news regarding child sexual abuse, the Lamplighters is a badly needed resource.
McKinnon is also the author of four books on recovering from child sexual abuse, and has lectured on her subject around the country. It is a subject she knows well. McKinnon was raped by her father when she was thirteen and ran away from home at the age of eighteen after a beating by her father that almost killed her. She spent the next almost three decades going from one abuser to another before she entered a program of recovery at the age of 45. Half way
through recovery she found out that her two older daughters had been sexually abused by her second husband. Her youngest daughter had been raped at gunpoint when she was 17. This underlines the reality that children of an untreated child sexual abuse victim stand a five times greater chance of being molested themselves. McKinnon’s motto after emerging from recovery was: “If I’d known life was going to turn out this good, I’d have started it sooner.”
Her book, REPAIR Your Life: A Program for Recovery from Incest & Childhood Sexual Abuse (adult version) has recently been released by Loving Healing Press and is a compilation of everything she learned in her own recovery.
“Anyone wanting to recover from the life-long trauma of childhood sexual abuse will benefit from this book,” says Marcelle Taylor, a well known child sexual abuse specialist in the Los Angeles area. “It will become the reader’s wise and trusted companion along the road to wellness.”
McKinnon has written the children’s version as well and it too will be released June 20th, 2008. Ms. Taylor has this to say about the children’s version:
“Margie, your Repair book for kids is awesome!!! dynamite!! and I wish I had had something like this a long time ago for my sad and shamed "little girl" within. I can't think of anything I'd change. You have covered it all and with wonderful sensitivity, perfect timing and terrific repair exercises. I love the cartoons and the colorfulness of your book as well.”
McKinnon says, “We need an army, a united voice! Starting a Lamplighter chapter is so easy, costs nothing and is a wonderful opportunity to make a difference in this war against child sexual abuse. You don’t have to be a therapist; you don’t even have to be a survivor. You can be an advocate. My dream is to one day have Lamplighters all around the world.”
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REPAIR Your Life is available through Loving, Healing Press, Barnes and Noble.com, Amazon.com and all other major book distributors as well as off The Lamplighter website at www.thelamplighters.org. Ms. McKinnon can be contacted at Margie@thelamplighters.org.
A Reuters review is provided below should you wish to read more about REPAIR Your Life
http://www.reuters.com/article/blogBurst/investing?bbPostId=CzAIQvvUp5TemBAbNOHE7N2nRCz9bsT1MQ41cqCz7P68e8g5sFg
Send an email to Marjorie McKinnon of The Lamplighters
928-649-3826
Keywords:
incest recovery, childhood sexual abuse, The Lamplighters
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