The Garden of Roses: Stories of Abuse and Healing

Theresa's Fund and its offspring, domesticshelters.org , are what happens when marketing executives decide to spend their spare time combatting abuse. Google  domesticshelters.org and you will find it has not only a website , but a Twitter account , a Facebook account , a Pinterest account, and an Instagram account .  Peruse the website, and you will find that they also have a You Tube account.  The domesticshelters.org , the Facebook page , and the Twitter are all updated regularly with thoughtful articles about abuse.  The website also includes a data base of domestic violence shelters and related services around the country and information domestic violence victims need to know to keep themselves safe. This media outreach to survivors, advocates, and the community at large, is the brain child of two content marketing executives -- Preston V. McMurry Jr. and his son, Chris McMurry. According to the website of the Content Marketing Institu...

By Preston McMurry as told to Virginia Pickles  The stereotyped endings of some old movies picture the hero and heroine walking off hand in hand into the sunset.   But there are other love stories, ones people normally keep to themselves, sad but sweet ones about the love between abuse survivors and their confused but supportive spouses.  In the end the hero and the heroine may smile and wave at each other, but they walk off into the sunset on separate paths.   Survivors struggle.  They cannot trust, and even if they know they can, the legacy of not being able to trust is so hard wired into their brains, they cannot make the leap into trusting.  Or they trust too easily because being used by others is also so hard wired into their brains, they are unable to do anything else. Survivors also often struggle with addiction to drugs and alcohol, depression, anxiety, discomfort with touch, addiction to sex or dislike of sex, inability to sleep and mo...