SOOTHING WORDS - Affirmations:
- - Make a tape of affirmations. Have supportive people
add messages for you.
- - Have a “Daily Bread Basket”
of affirmations to read, hold, carry with you.
- - Get a
book of affirmations and carry it with you.
- Healing Notebook: Put in affirmations, pictures,
messages from friends that remind you that you are safe and not alone. Carry the
notebook with you.
- Lucid Dreaming and Journalling: Use
meditative and free writing techniques.
- Self Talk: Tell
yourself something that will remind you that you are okay.
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Do a positive or nurturing HandPrints spontaneous writing.
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Write affirmations cards or post-it notes.
- Journal about
hopes and aspirations.
- Write a letter to yourself from
someone who thinks highly of you.
- With your non-dominant
hand, write from your child self.
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Find
the Sunshine Go swiftly my inner child;
You have
survived.
Find the sunshine that beams down
With all of your pride. Let
the past be honoured;
Your healing has begun.
Once again they have lost;
You have finally won. Cherlyn 
I
Embrace My Innocence I have gratitude
for the presence
The knowing of self
The stepping forward, nurtured
by all this energy
The knowledge and experience of abuse is
Present but
not defining.
The gift of presence in this world
creates freedom in my
heart and breath
To move through and beyond
the pain to have hope.
Drawing from this core
I can realize my dream
I can nurture and comfort
I am not barren.
I am not alone. Kim
Precious Things to Me The soft wind
hitting my face
The smell of a forest after a gentle rainfall
The sound
of rain in the calm of the night
The sounds of singing birds in the sight
of the first light
The touch of the golden sun that’s kissing my cheeks
and nose.
The heat of the sand in between my toes
The steps in the sand
of someone walking alone
But most of all I’m listening and standing
I’m not alone These are precious things to me Donna
Open Spaces Arms reaching forever in a massive
shout
The dreams of an innocent child answered
Time slows and the fear
sleeps
Together -- endless hope. Babette 
When I Was Lost
When I was lost in dark despair
down in the dead of night,
from deep
within my soul cried out,
and bitter was the night.
I dreamed I saw
a little child
who knew the Way within.
He drew me by his innocence,
so pure, pristine, and good.
When all was dark and I was blind
still he perceived the Light.
He held my hand till I beheld
the beauty,
truth, and light.
And when I strayed he waited there
until I found myself.
Stay with me gentle, spirit guide
along the Sacred Way. Jake
You Came Back Then, friend,
I did not help you.
No help
Too scared to move
to see, hear, call
out. And so they killed you
And left me to remember,
Too scared to live. But you came back,
Held your hand out to me,
Made it safe to tell, and in the telling,
I
became alive. Mary Look,
Friend There.
That was me,
bent in sorrow,
locked in shame,
lost in fear See how I've grown.
I can hold my self
in the palm of my hand,
here. Tree
and flower honour their felled
with life,
and so can I. Hand
in hand,
we touch the sky Mary
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