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Extremely Stupid
Feb 7, 2025
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April Daniels
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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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"I'm Here! I'm Here."
"I may be poor....I might even be ugly...but Dear God, I'm here! I'm here!"
5 hrs ago
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April Daniels
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Ep 12: Sexual Trauma & How It Impacts Relationships - with April Daniels
The Body Remembers What We Were Taught to Endure
Feb 25
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Sara Stansberry
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Healing From Sexual Trauma One Boundary at a Time
Recovery isn’t just healing. It’s reclamation.
Feb 24
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April Daniels
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Sara Stansberry
6
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The Vital Differences Between Sadness and Depression and How to Spot Them
It’s like comparing a puddle to an ocean.
Feb 21
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Leon Macfayden
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April Daniels
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2
2
February 14, 1986
How the Telling Began | February 14, 2026 is the 40th Anniversary of the Scott Children Telling
Feb 14
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April Daniels
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4
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"Allegory of the Cave"
My reaction to the entire "Epstein Investigation" an the release of the Epstein Files
Feb 11
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April Daniels
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The Quiet Life with Susan Cain
Susan Cain
Child Abuse Survivor
Child Abuse Survivor
Kareem Takes on the News
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Audacious Creative Lives
Anne Boyd
In the Writing Burrow
Margaret Atwood
Men Survivors
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Ep 12: Sexual Trauma & How It Impacts Relationships - with April Daniels
The Body Remembers What We Were Taught to Endure
Feb 25
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Sara Stansberry
2
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The Vital Differences Between Sadness and Depression and How to Spot Them
It’s like comparing a puddle to an ocean.
Feb 21
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Leon Macfayden
and
April Daniels
5
2
2
February 14, 1986
How the Telling Began | February 14, 2026 is the 40th Anniversary of the Scott Children Telling
Feb 14
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April Daniels
7
4
2
"Allegory of the Cave"
My reaction to the entire "Epstein Investigation" an the release of the Epstein Files
Feb 11
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April Daniels
6
1
Indescribable Horror--We Must Remember
Humans cruelty to one another is indescribable
Jan 28
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April Daniels
6
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Reporting to the Police
My last post, "Our Savage Species" received many accolades (publicly & privately). I received some messages whereupon I realized that awareness is still…
Jan 24
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April Daniels
6
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Why does everyone in our family have to get mad before we do anything?
Anger can be healthy
Dec 2, 2025
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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, 2025
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April Daniels
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Linnea Butler ✨
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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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"Allegory of the Cave"
My reaction to the entire "Epstein Investigation" an the release of the Epstein Files
Feb 11
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April Daniels
6
1
Reporting to the Police
My last post, "Our Savage Species" received many accolades (publicly & privately). I received some messages whereupon I realized that awareness is still…
Jan 24
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April Daniels
6
1
Denial continued
My conversation with a biologist about how denial serves us
Nov 1, 2025
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April Daniels
5
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Denial
How I learned it can serve us
Oct 28, 2025
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April Daniels
5
3
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Revamp of Paperdolls.Today
Two Years and 400 posts ~ A revamp was necessary
Sep 22, 2025
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April Daniels
5
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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
6
2
2
The Finale
Working through the stages of loss and grief
Jul 21, 2024
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April Daniels
3
3
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Reporting to the Police
It’s your choice
Jul 17, 2024
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April Daniels
4
1
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Despair
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The Vital Differences Between Sadness and Depression and How to Spot Them
It’s like comparing a puddle to an ocean.
Feb 21
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Leon Macfayden
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April Daniels
5
2
2
Not for myself, but for a world in need
"...my heart still can dream"
Dec 24, 2025
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April Daniels
6
1
1
Despair
"Healing does not follow a clean plan with a smooth inclined plane."
Nov 11, 2025
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April Daniels
6
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Revamp of Paperdolls.Today
Two Years and 400 posts ~ A revamp was necessary
Sep 22, 2025
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April Daniels
5
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As a little girl I longed for a peaceful, lacy coffin
Starry, Starry Night by Don McLean
Apr 13, 2025
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April Daniels
5
2
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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
6
2
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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
7
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Rage
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Why does everyone in our family have to get mad before we do anything?
Anger can be healthy
Dec 2, 2025
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April Daniels
4
1
Revamp of Paperdolls.Today
Two Years and 400 posts ~ A revamp was necessary
Sep 22, 2025
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April Daniels
5
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Releasing Resentment
A conscious choice
Jan 29, 2025
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April Daniels
3
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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
6
2
2
The Finale
Working through the stages of loss and grief
Jul 21, 2024
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April Daniels
3
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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
4
1
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Confrontation
"I'm Here! I'm Here."
"I may be poor....I might even be ugly...but Dear God, I'm here! I'm here!"
5 hrs ago
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April Daniels
3
1
Indescribable Horror--We Must Remember
Humans cruelty to one another is indescribable
Jan 28
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April Daniels
6
1
Reporting to the Police
It’s your choice
Jul 17, 2024
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April Daniels
4
1
1
“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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April Daniels
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2
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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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2
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Acceptance
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"I'm Here! I'm Here."
"I may be poor....I might even be ugly...but Dear God, I'm here! I'm here!"
5 hrs ago
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April Daniels
3
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You've got the fight | You've got the insight
You'll be alright.
Dec 31, 2025
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April Daniels
6
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Not for myself, but for a world in need
"...my heart still can dream"
Dec 24, 2025
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April Daniels
6
1
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Returning Waves
When Good-bye is not forever
Dec 15, 2025
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April Daniels
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I lost a friend this week
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Dec 9, 2025
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Olaf the Yorkie (and the Boss)
3
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Denial continued
My conversation with a biologist about how denial serves us
Nov 1, 2025
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April Daniels
5
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Trauma News
ACE Seminar and Global Experiences
Oct 21, 2025
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April Daniels
5
1
Revamp of Paperdolls.Today
Two Years and 400 posts ~ A revamp was necessary
Sep 22, 2025
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April Daniels
5
1
Mormon
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Ep 12: Sexual Trauma & How It Impacts Relationships - with April Daniels
The Body Remembers What We Were Taught to Endure
Feb 25
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Sara Stansberry
2
1
February 14, 1986
How the Telling Began | February 14, 2026 is the 40th Anniversary of the Scott Children Telling
Feb 14
•
April Daniels
7
4
2
"Allegory of the Cave"
My reaction to the entire "Epstein Investigation" an the release of the Epstein Files
Feb 11
•
April Daniels
6
1
Reporting to the Police
My last post, "Our Savage Species" received many accolades (publicly & privately). I received some messages whereupon I realized that awareness is still…
Jan 24
•
April Daniels
6
1
Not for myself, but for a world in need
"...my heart still can dream"
Dec 24, 2025
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April Daniels
6
1
1
Why does everyone in our family have to get mad before we do anything?
Anger can be healthy
Dec 2, 2025
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April Daniels
4
1
Revamp of Paperdolls.Today
Two Years and 400 posts ~ A revamp was necessary
Sep 22, 2025
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April Daniels
5
1
"In Mormon Neighbors"
Why I agreed to have Mormon in the subtitle of "Paperdolls"
Mar 26, 2025
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April Daniels
6
2
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