“Surviving R. Kelly” is the six-part documentary courageously produced by Dream Hampton for Lifetime Television about the horrific intimate partner violence, rape and emotional abuse stories that have come forth for 25 years regarding the predatory criminal behavior of disgraced singer R. Kelly. The documentary also revealed a circle of co-conspirators and enablers who revealed stories of decades of collusion with their friend and employer.
“People will say, well why didn’t anyone notice? The answer is that we all noticed. No one cared because we were black girls.” -Mikki Kendall
***If you don’t have cable, full options with closed captioning are available online at Lifetime.
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If you are in an unsafe situation, in the United States call 911, The National Domestic Violence Hotline, (800) 799-7233, at TheHotline.org or RAINN.org. RAINN is the nation’s largest anti-sexual violence organization at (800) 656-HOPE.
“Surviving R. Kelly” Healing Circle: Sexual Violence, Abuse, Trauma & Spiritual Recovery video below.
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Hey Goddess~
Today we took an important detour in our regular Goddess Temple Sunday session.
We are in the middle of our “I Am Unf*kwithable” Spiritpreneur Mindset Reset series, but I felt a different call.
I felt the call very strongly that we needed to have a self-care Goddess Temple Sunday Healing Circle around trauma from sexual, emotional, spiritual and physical abuse and the aftermath.
Many of us just watched or are currently watching the horrific “Surviving R. Kelly” documentary series or the based-on-a-true-story series, “Dirty John;” and these programs have triggered MUCH in our tribe.
Being a community means that everything that happens is around our needs as a group and your highest and best good.
You can’t create your dream business and life on an unstable foundation.
YES, we claim this healing for each and every one of us and our sisters who came before, in our own bloodlines, and around this planet.
Watch Now!
Surviving “R. Kelly” Spiritual Healing Circle:
Self-Care, Sexual Abuse, Intimate Partner Violence
“Surviving R. Kelly”: Self-Care, Intimate Partner Violence, Abuse, Trauma (With EFT Tapping)
For more information on EFT Tapping, Emotional Freedom Technique, click here.
[YouTube Video Link]
What Is Domestic Violence?
Nearly 3 in 10 women (29%) and 1 in 10 men (10%) in the US have experienced rape, physical violence and/or stalking by a partner.
From TheHotline.org
Still I Rise
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
’Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I’ll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don’t you take it awful hard
’Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own backyard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
Somebody
somebody/ anybody
sing a black girl’s song
bring her out
to know herself
to know you
but sing her rhythms
carin/ struggle/ hard times
sing her song of life
she’s been dead so long
closed in silence so long
she doesn’t know the sound
of her own voice
her infinite beauty
she’s half-notes scattered
without rhythm/ no tune
sing her sighs
sing the song of her possibilities
sing a righteous gospel
let her be born
let her be born
& handled warmly.
― ntozake shange
for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
If you are in an unsafe situation, in the United States call 911, The National Domestic Violence Hotline, (800) 799-7233, at TheHotline.org or RAINN.org. RAINN is the nation’s largest anti-sexual violence organization at (800) 656-HOPE.
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