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The book is the heart of this substack: Paperdolls.Today
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Extremely Stupid
Feb 7
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Through a quagmire of grief
Sep 20, 2024
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April Daniels
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Enhancements and Benefits
Nov 4, 2024
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April Daniels
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We need the courage to look this problem in the face and say, this is real and this is all of us.
Nov 17, 2024
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April Daniels
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Little Boys and Little Girls are sexually abused causing developmental damage physically and psychologically. Awareness will encourage prevention to protect our children--and all of us. Healing is possible. Prevention is better.
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If We Didn't Abuse Our Children, Would We Even Have a Military? (continued)
What Navy SEALs on ibogaine revealed about the trauma pipeline we refuse to see
Nov 22
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Linnea Butler ✨
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If We Didn't Abuse Our Children, Would We Even Have a Military?
What Navy SEALs on ibogaine revealed about the trauma pipeline we refuse to see
Nov 21
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Linnea Butler ✨
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April Daniels
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Henry's Human Grandma invented Bear Spray!
Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!
Nov 17
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Henry the Bear Dog
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Despair
"Healing does not follow a clean plan with a smooth inclined plane."
Nov 11
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April Daniels
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Denial continued
My conversation with a biologist about how denial serves us
Nov 1
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Denial
How I learned it can serve us
Oct 28
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April Daniels
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If We Didn't Abuse Our Children, Would We Even Have a Military? (continued)
What Navy SEALs on ibogaine revealed about the trauma pipeline we refuse to see
Nov 22
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April Daniels
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Linnea Butler ✨
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If We Didn't Abuse Our Children, Would We Even Have a Military?
What Navy SEALs on ibogaine revealed about the trauma pipeline we refuse to see
Nov 21
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Linnea Butler ✨
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April Daniels
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Revamp of Paperdolls.Today
Two Years and 400 posts ~ A revamp was necessary
Sep 22
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April Daniels
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Little Boys are Sexually Abused as easily as Little Girls
Why has the myth that Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA) is a female problem persisted?
Sep 15
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April Daniels
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Beauty from the Ashes
My dream is that we will all unite and eradicate the daunting problem of childhood sexual abuse.
Aug 31
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April Daniels
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Paperdolls & Cowboy Boots
The book is the heart of this substack: Paperdolls.Today
Aug 25
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Child Sex Abuse (CSA) is not isolated to any socio-economic class, race, gender or political affiliation.
Child Sex Abuse (CSA) is a crime against humanity
Jul 28
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Top 5 Posts for the Month of June
In case you missed it
Jun 30
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Paperdolls & Cowboy Boots (the book) is organized by the stages of loss and grief. Paperdolls.Today is organized in a similar fashion.
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Denial
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Denial continued
My conversation with a biologist about how denial serves us
Nov 1
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April Daniels
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Denial
How I learned it can serve us
Oct 28
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April Daniels
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Revamp of Paperdolls.Today
Two Years and 400 posts ~ A revamp was necessary
Sep 22
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April Daniels
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0:09
SAFE Symposium: Ending Child Sex Abuse
Another wave of awareness
Oct 24, 2024
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April Daniels
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The Finale
Working through the stages of loss and grief
Jul 21, 2024
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April Daniels
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Reporting to the Police
It’s your choice
Jul 17, 2024
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April Daniels
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“Let us dedicate ourselves to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
Let us dedicate ourselves to that, and say a prayer for our country and for our people.”
Jul 14, 2024
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April Daniels
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Not Hyberbole
“…child sexual abuse represents a greater threat to this country’s future than cancer or nuclear war.”
Mar 26, 2024
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Despair
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Despair
"Healing does not follow a clean plan with a smooth inclined plane."
Nov 11
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April Daniels
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Revamp of Paperdolls.Today
Two Years and 400 posts ~ A revamp was necessary
Sep 22
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April Daniels
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As a little girl I longed for a peaceful, lacy coffin
Starry, Starry Night by Don McLean
Apr 13
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SAFE Symposium: Ending Child Sex Abuse
Another wave of awareness
Oct 24, 2024
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April Daniels
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Kacie Woody would have been 35 today
Hopefully, my words will etch her memory into the hearts of an untold number of souls forever
Oct 17, 2024
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April Daniels
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Through a quagmire of grief
I found peace and a degree of happiness
Sep 20, 2024
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April Daniels
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The Finale
Working through the stages of loss and grief
Jul 21, 2024
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April Daniels
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Three Brutal Comedies, by Wendy Hammond
"...my struggle to understand and then to heal evil." (Wendy Hammond)
May 1, 2024
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April Daniels
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Rage
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Revamp of Paperdolls.Today
Two Years and 400 posts ~ A revamp was necessary
Sep 22
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April Daniels
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Releasing Resentment
A conscious choice
Jan 29
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April Daniels
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0:09
SAFE Symposium: Ending Child Sex Abuse
Another wave of awareness
Oct 24, 2024
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April Daniels
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The Finale
Working through the stages of loss and grief
Jul 21, 2024
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April Daniels
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The Penultimate Post
The one before the Final
Jul 19, 2024
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April Daniels
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"Who's afraid of Little Old Me?"
by Taylor Swift
Jul 18, 2024
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April Daniels
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Reporting to the Police
It’s your choice
Jul 17, 2024
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April Daniels
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“Beware of Self-Appointed Experts: who anointed them anyway?”
Self-labeled “researchers” and “investigators”
Jul 16, 2024
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April Daniels
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Confrontation
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Reporting to the Police
It’s your choice
Jul 17, 2024
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April Daniels
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“Let us dedicate ourselves to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
Let us dedicate ourselves to that, and say a prayer for our country and for our people.”
Jul 14, 2024
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April Daniels
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April's Allegory of the Cave
Explanation
Feb 15, 2024
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“…choose to do what’s right.”
Christine Blasey Ford
Sep 21, 2023
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April Daniels
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Acceptance
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Denial continued
My conversation with a biologist about how denial serves us
Nov 1
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April Daniels
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Trauma News
ACE Seminar and Global Experiences
Oct 21
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April Daniels
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Revamp of Paperdolls.Today
Two Years and 400 posts ~ A revamp was necessary
Sep 22
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April Daniels
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How my therapist supported me in dealing with--and healing--from the traumatic sexual abuse of my childhood.
In Honor of Karen Fisher's Birthday
Sep 5
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April Daniels
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Beauty from the Ashes
My dream is that we will all unite and eradicate the daunting problem of childhood sexual abuse.
Aug 31
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April Daniels
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To My Father
To all who need forgiveness, especially to forgive oneself
Jun 15
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April Daniels
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Regardless, victims and survivors can heal.
Last summer, I engaged in a rather robust online exchange with a guy who adamantly believed that sexual abuse victims can only heal if the perpetrator…
Sep 20, 2024
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April Daniels
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The Finale
Working through the stages of loss and grief
Jul 21, 2024
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April Daniels
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Mormon
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Revamp of Paperdolls.Today
Two Years and 400 posts ~ A revamp was necessary
Sep 22
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April Daniels
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"In Mormon Neighbors"
Why I agreed to have Mormon in the subtitle of "Paperdolls"
Mar 26
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April Daniels
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Releasing Resentment
A conscious choice
Jan 29
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April Daniels
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The Finale
Working through the stages of loss and grief
Jul 21, 2024
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April Daniels
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The Penultimate Post
The one before the Final
Jul 19, 2024
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April Daniels
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"Who's afraid of Little Old Me?"
by Taylor Swift
Jul 18, 2024
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April Daniels
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Reporting to the Police
It’s your choice
Jul 17, 2024
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April Daniels
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Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
Use caution with whom you follow
Jul 15, 2024
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April Daniels
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