{"id":2099,"date":"2010-03-20T15:08:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T20:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=2099"},"modified":"2010-03-20T15:08:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T20:08:11","slug":"karen-answers-keshia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=2099","title":{"rendered":"Karen answers Keshia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Comment by Keshia on 10 Mar 2010 at 8:10 am<span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>It\u2019s a good day, Karen. \u00a0Amazing me has just met amazing you through reading your story. I am blessed to find this blog. I sat up most of the night reading away and there\u2019s more. Wisdom is your gift. I wish you happiness. I wish you love. Most of all I am honored to know another survivor. I myself survived child sexual abuse. I am not a multiple but your story helped me start my journey. Two and a half years ago I bought your book after seeing you on GMA. I doubt you know how many women started therapy after reading your story. I was one of them. Thank you for bringing a delicate shame out in the open for us to heal. I am getting better all the time. Today I woke thinking of you and said I need to write that woman, and here I am. Love you!!!!!!!!<span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Keshia<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Dear Keshia,<span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Thank you so much for writing to me and sharing your thoughts two years after reading my story. I am always glad to hear stories such as yours. Sharing has given me purpose. I am touched by your kindness and glad to hear that reading my story has helped you start your own journey to wellness. That means so much to me. It&#8217;s always been my desire to encourage hope.\u00a0<span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Yes, we are survivors. And surviving multiplicity is only one step in coping with child sexual abuse. I admit it was difficult at first to share my story due to my own shame, but in my heart I knew without sharing the truth of my experiences, there would be no knowledge gained. It was important for me to share the reality of my journey to wellness.\u00a0<span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Thank you for all your compliments, for caring and for loving me. I truly feel blessed.<span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Karen<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment by Keshia on 10 Mar 2010 at 8:10 am It\u2019s a good day, Karen. \u00a0Amazing me has just met amazing you through reading your story. I am blessed to find this blog. I sat up most of the night reading away and there\u2019s more. Wisdom is your gift. I wish you happiness. I wish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-karens-answers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2100,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions\/2100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}