Hello!!! I hope your summer has been safe and excellent! I haven't posted here in months. I was broadcasting on YouTube in April and then started to become ill. I still don't know what it was, and my doctor couldn't diagnose it. I took time off and then left my position at work because I could not physically do the job role that they wanted me to take on. I've been off all summer trying to get physically better and things are improving. My cat passed away in June so it has also been a sad time for me. She was with me and my husband Cecil since she was a young cat and she made it to 18 years of life with me! I miss her very much. It's been four years since my husband Cecil Tornerup went to Heaven. I miss him every moment of every day. I have been busy looking for work. I'll be cleared to work by the end of August so I'll just keep looking. It's also been an exciting summer for me as my best friend, Publisher and Best Selling Author Donna M. Kshir asked me to be part of a project she is working on. I'll have more details regarding that book when it comes out in September, 2022. I was honoured she asked me to be in the book and I'm very excited to see the published copy when it's available. I also have several books I'm finishing and added two new books to start writing so I'll be excited to share them with you here when they are done. I'll be hosting two new podcasts on Anchor.FM. One is mine and I'll share the link here, and the other is a weekly podcast I'll be co-hosting. What a great honour! I am excited, and looking forward to the rest of this summer. I'm working on getting healthier each day as they come and I hope to be around a while to continue the mission to create Child Abuse Prevention Awareness and complete my other projects. I wish you all the very best for the summer! Take good care of yourselves!!
https://anchor.fm/author-laurie-ann-smith https://www.flickr.com/photos/lausmi52207/ April is Child Abuse Prevention Awareness Month!Hello my friends! I have been invited to speak at a workshop webinar by Hope Collaborative, and Riverside Family Services at the end of April. Joining me will be my sister advocates Donna Kshir and Lee Roberts. They have asked me to tell my story of what it was like growing up abused in a home full of domestic violence and dysfunction. Then Donna, Lee and myself will talk about why it's so important to have the conversation about stopping and preventing child abuse. Children are dying, and the Covid-19 pandemic has just made things worse. Join us at the webinar and do all you can to stop and prevent child abuse.
Join Donna Kshir and Lee Roberts as they interview AU4H Radio's Volunteer Program Coordinator Advocate, Author Laurie Ann Smith. This year marks a 10 Year Anniversary and Re-Launch of Laurie's books - A Life of Death: The Redemption, La Veta Juvies and One Child Abuse Survivor 2 Another-The Journey. All proceeds from Laurie's books go to fund programs to stop and prevent child abuse. Laurie Ann Smith is a popular online radio talk show host, 5 x published author and voice for those whose voices were silenced due to abuse; whose lives were destroyed by abuse. Her only hope is to promote public awareness and education to help stop the cycle of abuse, child abuse, and domestic violence. Her mission is to be "one more voice" among many to help stop child abuse and to make this world a better place for everyone. I am excited about 2021! I am hopeful that our lives will begin to improve, and that things are going to start getting better for everyone around the world. Last year was intense, and even some of the lingering anxieties are still on the surface of all I can see in my world. I do have some great news! I resigned from my volunteer position with NAASCA.org last November, and then in December my two best friends and long time advocates, Donna Kshir and Lee Roberts asked if I wanted to return to Advocates United for Humanity as their Volunteer AU4H Radio Program Coordinator. Of course I jumped at the opportunity to work with my sisters again! We have worked together on numerous projects since 2009 and I am really looking forward to a new and exciting year ahead! Here is the link to the article that was shared on our website. I want to thank everyone for your support through the years. It means the world to me. I wish you a much better and a very blessed 2021! http://au4h.weebly.com/au4h-radio-program-coordinator.html I am the Alberta Ambassador for NAASCA.org, National Association of Adult Survivors of Child Abuse. I haven't been able to do much other than be an online presence due to Covid-19 and my own health issues that have been a problem since last fall. I have been able to do some online advocacy with NAASCA on our own SCAN Show, (Stop Child Abuse Now!) on Blog Talk Radio. We do 5 shows a week, Monday through Friday and feature Survivor-Professionals and Survivors sharing their own personal stories of surviving child abuse. I will be a returning guest this Friday, October 16th. We will be discussing the topic of Second-hand Domestic Violence and Child Abuse, Family Violence and all that goes along with it. I will be sharing some of my own coping strategies that I've used in my healing journey that have made a difference and worked for me. We are all different, and all at different places in our healing journey's so what works for me, may not work for you. I always remind my fellow survivors to just keep reaching out and never give up! We deserved so much better, we did not deserve to be abused. I hope you can join us on the show or you can always listen to the archive and many other archived shows that we have done. Wishing you all the best. Stay safe!!
https://www.blogtalkradio.com/naasca/2020/10/17/stop-child-abuse-now-scan--2510 Domestic Violence and Child Abuse - A Tribute Video to My Brothers is a vlog I recently did to honour my brothers who suffered horribly as children, being abused by our parents, and then went on to live such horrible lives as young adults. My brother Chesley was murdered at age 19, and my brother Rob committed suicide at age 33. My brother Howard committed suicide at age 35. My message is clear! No matter what you have been through, or what you are going through now, do not give up! Reach out and get the help you so deserve! Win this fight with me. Update September 08, 2018 I just wanted to fill everyone in on what's been happening for the last 6 months or so and let everyone know the sad news that my husband Cecil passed away in August 2018. It's a sad time of grieving for me right now, but I plan on starting to broadcast again and also pick up with the Bible Study videos as well. I'll keep you posted on my website at the following link. Thanks for all your support through the years! http://authorlaurieannsmith.weebly.com/broadcast-schedule.html A Poem I wrote to my 8 year old self who survived incest, child rape, sodomy and sexual abuse5/21/2017
Child of Pain
Oh my child, my child of pain Let me hold you if you trust me I promise I won't leave you again Left alone in the dark these many years Bound and Gagged in so much pain those endless tears you cried all alone the door was shut, you were left on your own The torture and torment as he raped you 37 years, while I did not want to think about you I had to split, my child of pain as I knew I could not live with that kind of pain Your wounded body, raped and torn Your wounded soul, Your life he stole My wounded body, did finally heal No children would I have from the ordeal My wounded mind, raped everyday As I knew the truth about my child of pain Let me untie you, set you free I will sit here on the bed and keep you company One day we will truly heal, learn to love again Let me help you precious girl We can hold each other Soothe away the pain Together we will take back our body We will take back our virginity We will take back our power He cannot hurt us anymore We have purged and cleansed ourselves From his evil deeds We are free my precious to love ourselves No longer do we live in shame No longer will we have to endure this pain It is over my precious child I promise I will never leave you again Laurie Ann Smith Copyright 2011 This picture is a depiction of one of the beatings I was forced to endure at the hands of my mother. Both of my parents abused me as well as my brother who was 13 years older than me and sexually abused me from 8 to 9 years old. I was 10 years old when my mother beat me and then came back for "Round 2" and I detailed this in my book, "A Life of Death: The Redemption". There is NO EXCUSE for child abuse. No one is forced to abuse a child. People abuse children for many reasons, but none of them are acceptable! Do all you can to help stop and prevent child abuse!
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