Male Abuse Awareness Week

On Sunday, Dec. 5, 2010 at 4:00 p.m. central, I will be interviewing recording artist Petra Luna on BlogTalkRadio. Petra Luna is a professional musician by trade but much more to her beloved fans and followers. She has become one of the matriarchs of her cause to fight child abuse as well as one of the cause’s most recognized faces. An exemplary survivor of all forms of abuse, she inspires thousands of people to unite in the name of her cause. She also encourages victims of abuse to seek help, justice and recovery through her music and nonprofit organization she calls the P. Luna Foundation. 

The P.Luna Foundation fights child abuse by creating innovative programs to educate, aid law enforcement, and build awareness about the growing epidemic of child abuse and exploitation.  This year, Cook Enterprises - Current Events with Patrick Cook - and The P. Luna Foundation are joining forces in support of Male Abuse Awareness Week.  Male Abuse Awareness Week is an awareness campaign held every year from Dec 1st through 8th and this website is an extension of that program. 

It is a program dedicated to the special needs of young boys and men who have been abused, in an attempt to stop these young males from growing up to abuse others and repeat the cycle of abuse.

New Online Discrete Private and Group Counseling

Power of Mind is a private online counseling service that helps individuals of all ages, of any culture and of any status to be helped, guided and supported through counseling.  Power of Mind gives individuals a chance to gain counseling through the means of technology by being able to chat to a qualified counselor through using the internet directly.  Counseling gives individuals the chance to be able talk about issues in a professional, confidential and convenient manner. Power of Mind is dedicated to each and every individual who would like to seek help.   Sometimes various issues control our lives and it is difficult to be able to cope. Online counseling can give you the opportunity to be in control, to stay positive and to find a way to deal with such issues in the best possible way.












Tyler Perry recounts childhood abuse on Web site

Tyler Perry has, for the first time, revealed graphic details about the sexual, physical and emotional abuse he says he suffered as a child.  "I'm tired of holding this in," Tyler Perry wrote on his Web site, "... so I've decided to give some away."  Perry recounts in a message posted on his Web site and in an e-mail to fans that a pre-screening of the film "Precious," due out later this year, dislodged "some raw emotions and brought me to some things and places in my life that I needed to deal with but had long forgotten. It brought back memories so strong that I can smell and taste them."

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Male Sexual Abuse Survivors Stand Together

The topic is taboo, surrounded by stigma and shame. People don't often talk about childhood sexual abuse, a silent and devastating epidemic, but a staggering number of men live with the lasting effects every day.  According to reports, one in every six men was molested as a child. For the first time in television history, 200 male sexual abuse survivors stand together to lift the veil of shame. Each man holds a childhood photo of himself at the age when he says the abuse first began.
Full report here





Carlos Santana - Santana Relieved He Went Public About Child Molestation Hell

Guitar great CARLOS SANTANA hopes his 2000 revelation about the sex abuse he suffered as a youth has helped others overcome painful childhood memories. The rocker shocked fans by revealing all about the darkest part of his childhood in a Rolling Stone magazine interview and is amazed going public about his trauma has helping put his demons to rest. He says, "It was scary, but I had to share the information from a point of healing."

Santana recalls his molestation nightmare - at the hands of a friend's father - ended when he fell in love with his first girlfriend. He states, "He saw me looking at her and slapped me so hard my ears were ringing. That's when I knew it was over.
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