April 30, 2007
Thinking Blogger, Thankful Blogger
Well, I meant to get this post up a few days ago but got triggered into yet another major dissociative meltdown and everything just gets put on hold when that happens.
I want to tell you, however, how you thoughtful, validating bloggers helped me turn a negative into a positive. As some of you may know, I had a blogger come on to my blog and start commenting to me and other readers in a way that left me feeling attacked and invalidated. I told the blogger that I didn't want my comment section to become a huge debate forum, so I continued the conversation with them via e-mail. The last e-mail I got from them felt downright hateful and cruel to me. This was difficult timing for me as I was just in the middle of working with my T on devastating feelings of isolation and loneliness...and that feeling that nobody can be trusted.
For a while I felt quite sorry for myself that this blogger with whom I had been acquainted for some time seemed to turn on me. But some of the things they said to me caught my attention. It wasn't anything about parts, abuse, recovery or anything like that. It was technical blog stuff.
This blogger made an accusation that I did, indeed desire an online debate; that I was lying about that. They said that I could have _____ them whenever I wanted if I hadn't wanted a debate. I can't even remember what the term was and the e-mail that contained it was too painful for me to keep, so I quickly deleted it. But, I assume the term had something to do with blocking a reader/commenter.
I've admitted this several times: I am very un-cyber savvy when it comes to anything technical on my blog. I've warned viewers that they have to go to my dot com site: www.survivorscanthrive.com to get any kind of pretty pictures and the like.
It's embarrassing to me that I haven't been able to include pictures on my blog or those neat little buttons or a blogroll, or the Blog Carnival widget, so that readers can easily link and submit to our Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse. I decided, ENOUGH! Looky, looky, over at the sidebar. I finally figured out how to get the Blog Carnival widget up there, and it's not stretched across the blog posts. Yippeeee!
Do you notice something else new over there? It's a cute little button for The Thinking Blogger Awards. Let me tell you how that came about. In addition to my new found determination to get more technical-savvy on this blog, I decided my link updates were way overdue as well. Weeks ago, my friend Keepers e-mailed me to tell me that she had nominated me for a Thinking Blogger Award. I thought that was way cool and I wanted to put up a post thanking her for it, but was embarrassed that I didn't even have an updated link to her on the sidebar.
Then, I found out that somebody else that I had a faulty, old link up to--Beautiful Dreamer--had also nominated me for the Thinking Blogger award. Wow! I'm really starting to feel the love now...and the appreciation and validation. *warm fuzzy*
So, I decided to get up off my butt and update those links. I also like to provide reciprocal links to blogger folks. Now, I don't have any kind of tracker on my blog. So, if you don't leave a comment, I don't know that you've visited here. I am savvy enough, however to know how to use Who Links To Me and Technorati. Yeah, it's embarrassing: I couldn't get the Technorati button to show up on my template either...but now that could change! ;) So anyway, I went to Technorati to see who had recently linked to me and see if I thought they were a good reciprocal link fit.
Guess what? I found another blogger, Feminist Nation, who had also nominated me for The Thinking Blogger award! Wow! Just when I was starting to think that I was, indeed pathetic, that nobody got anything helpful from my blog, and that there really was no meaning whatever for my abuse, I see that I stand corrected. Thanks, guys! I really needed that.
Since The Thinking Blogger Award is actually a meme (yes, I even know what that means) I will tag some thinking bloggers I appreciate and that will be my next post. For now, go check out all the new links on the sidebar and give these bloggers a good look-see.
I want to tell you, however, how you thoughtful, validating bloggers helped me turn a negative into a positive. As some of you may know, I had a blogger come on to my blog and start commenting to me and other readers in a way that left me feeling attacked and invalidated. I told the blogger that I didn't want my comment section to become a huge debate forum, so I continued the conversation with them via e-mail. The last e-mail I got from them felt downright hateful and cruel to me. This was difficult timing for me as I was just in the middle of working with my T on devastating feelings of isolation and loneliness...and that feeling that nobody can be trusted.
For a while I felt quite sorry for myself that this blogger with whom I had been acquainted for some time seemed to turn on me. But some of the things they said to me caught my attention. It wasn't anything about parts, abuse, recovery or anything like that. It was technical blog stuff.
This blogger made an accusation that I did, indeed desire an online debate; that I was lying about that. They said that I could have _____ them whenever I wanted if I hadn't wanted a debate. I can't even remember what the term was and the e-mail that contained it was too painful for me to keep, so I quickly deleted it. But, I assume the term had something to do with blocking a reader/commenter.
I've admitted this several times: I am very un-cyber savvy when it comes to anything technical on my blog. I've warned viewers that they have to go to my dot com site: www.survivorscanthrive.com to get any kind of pretty pictures and the like.
It's embarrassing to me that I haven't been able to include pictures on my blog or those neat little buttons or a blogroll, or the Blog Carnival widget, so that readers can easily link and submit to our Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse. I decided, ENOUGH! Looky, looky, over at the sidebar. I finally figured out how to get the Blog Carnival widget up there, and it's not stretched across the blog posts. Yippeeee!
Do you notice something else new over there? It's a cute little button for The Thinking Blogger Awards. Let me tell you how that came about. In addition to my new found determination to get more technical-savvy on this blog, I decided my link updates were way overdue as well. Weeks ago, my friend Keepers e-mailed me to tell me that she had nominated me for a Thinking Blogger Award. I thought that was way cool and I wanted to put up a post thanking her for it, but was embarrassed that I didn't even have an updated link to her on the sidebar.
Then, I found out that somebody else that I had a faulty, old link up to--Beautiful Dreamer--had also nominated me for the Thinking Blogger award. Wow! I'm really starting to feel the love now...and the appreciation and validation. *warm fuzzy*
So, I decided to get up off my butt and update those links. I also like to provide reciprocal links to blogger folks. Now, I don't have any kind of tracker on my blog. So, if you don't leave a comment, I don't know that you've visited here. I am savvy enough, however to know how to use Who Links To Me and Technorati. Yeah, it's embarrassing: I couldn't get the Technorati button to show up on my template either...but now that could change! ;) So anyway, I went to Technorati to see who had recently linked to me and see if I thought they were a good reciprocal link fit.
Guess what? I found another blogger, Feminist Nation, who had also nominated me for The Thinking Blogger award! Wow! Just when I was starting to think that I was, indeed pathetic, that nobody got anything helpful from my blog, and that there really was no meaning whatever for my abuse, I see that I stand corrected. Thanks, guys! I really needed that.
Since The Thinking Blogger Award is actually a meme (yes, I even know what that means) I will tag some thinking bloggers I appreciate and that will be my next post. For now, go check out all the new links on the sidebar and give these bloggers a good look-see.
Labels: links, support, Thinking Blogger, validation
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Congrats to you for your Thinking Blogger awards . . . come to think of it, someone nominated me a while ago and I had the button on my sidebar. What happened to it?! That's weird.
# posted by 
: April 30, 2007 7:32 PM
: April 30, 2007 7:32 PM
we are thrilled others recognized your value and gifts you give us all, for you to call us thrivers, we consider that a comment we will always cherish.
your friend
Keepers
your friend
Keepers
# posted by : April 30, 2007 8:12 PM
: April 30, 2007 8:12 PM
I've been dealing with a commenter who would not stop. (She has a bipolar mother and has some real issues along this line -- being a nice fellow, I did not raise this as an attack point.) What I said to her in the end was that her opinion had been noted. Period.
You don't need to entertain the jerks. You can block them from your site if they are too much for you. You don't have to become entangled. And you can drop me a line any time you find yourself hogtied by such scoundrels.
It's a legacy that abusive parents teach us: attention must be paid no matter how abusive the insistence may be. We're no longer kids, marj, so we don't have to put up with that kind of crap. The principle is wrong. Beware the predators who operate on that principle.
You don't need to entertain the jerks. You can block them from your site if they are too much for you. You don't have to become entangled. And you can drop me a line any time you find yourself hogtied by such scoundrels.
It's a legacy that abusive parents teach us: attention must be paid no matter how abusive the insistence may be. We're no longer kids, marj, so we don't have to put up with that kind of crap. The principle is wrong. Beware the predators who operate on that principle.
Congratulations on the awards! It's wonderful to know you're validated and appreciated for your valuable contributions. Stay focused on the positive energy coming your way.
Wishing all of us that experience in life. We should have survivor appreciation days for all of us out in the webosphere! It's so important. Especially essential for survivors, to help overcome the devastating experiences of invalidation and negation.
(Just started this brand new place of mine, not much up now, but will be more)
Wishing all of us that experience in life. We should have survivor appreciation days for all of us out in the webosphere! It's so important. Especially essential for survivors, to help overcome the devastating experiences of invalidation and negation.
(Just started this brand new place of mine, not much up now, but will be more)
Dream Katcher: Thanks for stopping by. I like your ideas. I'll swing by and check out your blog.
Enola: I went to www.photobucket.com and it took about 90 seconds to sign up for a free account. I got the thinking blogger button up using html--I haven't learned how to drag and drop pix yet, but I'll learn eventually. ;)
Enola: I went to www.photobucket.com and it took about 90 seconds to sign up for a free account. I got the thinking blogger button up using html--I haven't learned how to drag and drop pix yet, but I'll learn eventually. ;)
I wanted to pass along this tribute I wrote from me to you to all survivors we can reach...
"We are the voices of abuse survivors and all Divinely sacred women who have been loved with hate, silenced yet feared, adored and scorned, and oppressed by the obessesed. We have struggled with the many names and labels put upon us. We have struggled to find our voice with amazing strength through the weakness, and immense courage through the fear. We have been pushed down repeatedly, yet we have risen to release our burgeoning selves, embrace our Divineness and celebrate our liberation."
I wrote it response to excerpts I posted from an ancient manuscript discovered in Egypt, written in an unidentified Divine female voice.
"We are the voices of abuse survivors and all Divinely sacred women who have been loved with hate, silenced yet feared, adored and scorned, and oppressed by the obessesed. We have struggled with the many names and labels put upon us. We have struggled to find our voice with amazing strength through the weakness, and immense courage through the fear. We have been pushed down repeatedly, yet we have risen to release our burgeoning selves, embrace our Divineness and celebrate our liberation."
I wrote it response to excerpts I posted from an ancient manuscript discovered in Egypt, written in an unidentified Divine female voice.
dream katcher: I think I can call you a beautiful writer as well. These are insights we don't often allow into our awareness. This reminds me of something I wrote once about the darkness causing us to see the light. keep on seeing--and reaching for--that light! :)
I need to get a grip, my blog is about my daily life, and more inspirational writing and little to do with charging people to think. But everytime I see one of those thinking awards blogs I get my hopes up and then pout. Get a grip Pk. .. blah.
shhhhhhhh ok, pity party over.
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shhhhhhhh ok, pity party over.
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