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Welcome to the website
of Sylvie Imelda Shene.
I offer emotional
support, encouragement and information to individuals in need of an
understanding witness on their side.
My vision is a world in
which all beings, especially children, are treated with dignity,
respect, understanding, and compassion. If children grow with
understanding and compassion, they will protect and treat with
compassion all beings that are vulnerable and weaker than they are.
“Child abuse happens one
child at a time, and is faced alone by each victim. The question
should not be, 'Why are they compelled to tell their stories?' but
rather, 'Why doesn’t our country feel compelled to listen to their
stories?'” states Timmen L. Cermak, MD in the foreword of Suzanne
Somers’ book Wednesday’s Children; Adult Survivors of Abuse Speak
Out.
Today I have found the
answer to this question. The reason most people don’t want to
listen to the stories of abuse is because if they listen to the painful
truth of others they would have to face their own painful truth - that
they too have suffered some form of child abuse.
Unfortunately,
most of us come from abusive family systems; and our schools and
institutions continue that abuse. A lot of people cannot handle it.
They don't have the courage to face and feel the painful truth that we
have been abused by those that were supposed to love and care for us.
Now, in our adult life, we may have turned into abusers ourselves.
In his book How to Know God Deepak Chopra says “You will know a
lot about human motivation once you realize one thing: ninety-nine
percent of humanity spends ninety-nine percent of their time trying to
avoid painful truths."
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photos also,
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