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Common Threads: Stories of Life After Trauma
by Connie Robillard & Marcel A. Duclos
This is the story of two psychotherapists who have worked in the field of trauma
and healing. They join together for the purpose of creating a book, which brings
the reader inside the lives of frightened children.
Through art, poetry and short stories the reader travels through time as these
children grow, change, make choices and become adults. The threads of abuse
follow them influencing their lives in what appears to be mysterious ways.
This book brings us closer to the reality of the far-reaching effects of trauma
and child sexual abuse.
At the same time, it is the story of courage, resiliency and the ability to
heal.
There is one purpose for this literary journey - healing.
For more information or to buy our book, view the
Common Threads:
Stories of Life After Trauma Website.
Connie Robillard and Marcel Duclos have also created a
Documentary on DVD based on this book.
Related:
A
Doorway in the Desert
An e-book by Connie Robillard & Marcel A. Duclos
Photography by
Ernest Gault
Do we enter into a vision or do our hearts see what is really before us
in all of its truth, goodness, beauty and love?
The characters in this story are on an internal quest. They travel to a
Native American mission in an effort to find what they need. Each learns, in
their own way, that prayers are not answered within time and space.
An old man, long passed over to the other side, lingers on among the
people he loves. Some are strangers and yet he knows them. He understands
their world from the inside out. He remains part of an earthly life in a
holy place.
A twenty first century woman senses the old man’s presence and a story
unfolds that brings the reader into the world of universal themes.
Those in need seek refuge from fear and loss. They enter the mission with
hope and leave through the same doorway, forever changed.
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Watering the Cracks in the Sidewalk
Cultivating Hope for Child Abuse Survivors
A woman bends close to gray concrete,
Watering
the weeds that grow between the sidewalk cracks.
Some
would call her insane.
But she is witness to the life that bends,
Twists
and grows determinedly
green in a
gray, unwelcoming place.
She waters
weeds between sidewalk cracks,
aiding,
honoring, paying tribute to
the life of
hope.
~ From Common Threads: Stories of Life After Trauma
“The human mind is naturally divided into parts. The parts of
one person demonstrate different temperaments, talents desires,
ages and gender. Together they form an internal family, which
organizes in the same way as other human systems.”
Richard
Swartz &
Regina
Goulding - The Mosaic Mind, 1995
The goal of this book is to bring awareness and
understanding to the struggles of children.
Growing children is like
growing plants -all of them need individualized care.
As human parents and caregivers we make mistakes.
For that reason all children are vulnerable to abuse. Trauma is
measured in degrees, longevity and by the depth of psychological
wounds.
As authors, we share our stories from an inner place
rather then a historically accurate place. Human beings
experience traumatic events through parts of their internal
emotional system.
Different parts of us wrote
these chapters, poems and commentaries.
As you read, take time to notice the different parts
of you that become emotionally activated by the writings.
Welcome all of your parts because like children,
whether they have grown in primarily supportive or inhospitable
places, they are all good.
Connie Robillard
Marcel A. Duclos
Lorraine
Lordi
“Entering
into the world of trauma is like looking into a fractured glass:
the familiar appears disjointed and disturbing.”
Francine Shapiro &
Margo Silk Forrest
- EMDR
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