Oprah's Receives Cecil B. DeMille Award & Talks Race, Class, Power & #MeToo Movement

Wow, Dana! Talk about courage. That's incredibly brave of you to share your story. I am so appalled and incensed that this happened to you. For years, the power was in the hands of your rapist and 'non-protecting bystanders' - now you have seized it back for yourself. Good for you! When the light is turned on the cockroaches scatter. 

Dana Brown posted:

Lou: YES! Let's co-create the healing platform and movement for #MeToo and CSA. Thank you for your leadership, Louise! Thank you for your courage!

Cis: Bless you for sharing Anonymous' comments. Admiring her brave sentiments shared, may she feel uplifted knowing she is heard and knowing her courage to speak out is on behalf of literally thousands suffering in silence.

Grateful for our ACEs Connection community being such a brave and safe space, I'm so humbled to be learning from, and sharing with others. My own sexual assault journey (the first rape was at 16 and when I screamed for help, they came, turned on the lights, and watched him finish) has been wrought with shame, blame, hopelessness, vile anger. Even now, writing these words decades later, I'm having a visceral reaction with tears streaming as I hold these emotions and KNOW the vast majority of humanity understand the pain, anguish, and healing journey.

The grace of our healing journey is with each other. The wisest person is the one who has traveled the road ahead. Experiences bring us wisdom.

I'm so grateful for each of you, our members on ACEs Connection, for our courage to share, our bravery to heal, our Love and Light we experience together. Our collective wisdom.

Dana: 

I am so GRATEFUL for you and astounded by you and furious for what happened to you. And YOU are a wise leader who remains so loving. It's literally amazing.

This should be a motto for all who work with survivors of all kinds of ACEs and trauma.

"The wisest person is the one who has traveled the road ahead. Experiences bring us wisdom." 

I think this is central and obvious and often forgotten. Sometimes it's an afterthought or not done at all - why I think parenting with ACEs work must be led by those parenting with ACEs). Anyhow, we so need each other in every part of this work and we can learn from each other and from the experiences we don't share as well as the ones we do. But to heal, at least in the beginning, I believe we need to be in community with those who get it viscerally, intellectually, emotionally and experientially who share from that place, speaking with and to instead of at and for. And that those wise ones must be more than tokens at policy and program levels for systemic change.

Things are really changing and that is so encouraging. I'm going to give you the hugest hug when I see you!
As you say, in gratitude! Cissy

Whatever you do, I implore you to work to take on the CSA in Hollywood and Politics too and to take on the CSA of boys who also suffer. 

And remember, wars, unjust wars like the Iraq war and the evil war in Libya where Africans are now sold in open air markets, brings sexual abuse, children conscripted as child soldiers, human trafficking for sex, labor and organs. Let’s not forget the need to be steadfast against unjust and inhumane wars. 

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