The Garden of Roses: Stories of Abuse and Healing

 How to Heal: A Workbook for Survivors by a Survivor Plus Tips for Documenting Abuse by. V. Jones This is the title of my book, available for purchase at  https://www.amazon.com/How-Heal-Workbook-Survivors-Documenting/dp/B0GMQBP8R8 .     Last year,  I traveled around Oregon to promote my first book, which included a workbook and stories of my childhood trauma and the things that went right in my life. For example, I worked in wildlife and fisheries, which helped me gain self-confidence. Then I studied to become a Registered Nurse and became a psychiatric nurse. I also wrote about my marriage and divorce, and the child custody battle that followed. I won that battle so thoroughly that the judge ordered my ex-husband to pay 90% of my attorney's fees. My life's story is very interesting, in part because I worked as a Foreign Fisheries Observer on Soviet, Japanese, and Polish fishing vessels in the 1980s.       Although I think my life ...

  Why We Need Coercive Control Legislation and  What Should That Legislation Contain? by Virginia Jones I care about coercive control family violence because my family went through it in the form of a protracted child custody battle. I obtained court orders for my children to have therapy and for my ex-husband and me to work with a Court-Ordered Parenting Time Coordinator. Unfortunately, the legal system works very slowly, and my ex-husband was able to slow it down further. Moreover, even when I had therapists in place, my ex-husband frequently refused to follow their orders. This left my children in emotionally abusive situations for years before I could obtain proper help for them from the legal system.  I need to explain that I, Virginia Jones, the author of this article, am a former psychiatric nurse, so I am familiar with psychiatric diagnoses and mental health treatments. My family's story, which fills twenty file boxes of emails, legal documents, and my...