January 2012
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Happy New Year
I have just received yet another of those pretty, pretty u tube videos which show the beauty of our world by slow moving camera play on mountains and lakes, oceans and plains, whilst baby wild animals tumble and play, or wild horses gallop along a beach; beautiful choral music playing in the background. And yes these videos do remind us what an amazing, stunning and diverse world we live in.
But...
July 2011
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Scandalous
Seeing the great effort that politicians, newspaper magnates, journalists and anyone else who has enough clout to get themselves written about in the press, are putting into covering their behinds to avoid contamination in the phone hacking scandal; I cannot help but wonder what a great difference could be made to so many lives if they actually took their heads out of the clouds of that rarefied...
Having set aside this weekend to write, I had no excuse this morning not to sit down at my laptop and start. But as usual, when faced with what I consider a monumental task, I dithered and found odds and bits of jobs to do, that in all honesty could have waited for another day. To try and discipline myself and clear my mind, I lay on the sofa in my conservatory, listening to some worship tapes and...
June 2011
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WatchSleepy Welford village holds second ‘Welfest on the Meadow’. With three stages and twenty bands even the grim British weather didn’t stop the fans from coming to the music festival at Welford on Avon yesterday. Great bands and singers, bar open until all hours, pig roast, bar b que and a brilliant atmosphere. Well done to Simon and the team!
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Letter of praise from Felix Dennis
We have received a wonderful letter of praise from British poet and entrepreneur Felix Dennis about Because You’re A Woman.
Thank you so much for your book, Because You’re a Woman. I haven’t read it properly yet but I have already thoroughly enjoyed several of the poems in it. My only suggestion would be that, if the book is reprinted, you include a contents page showing on what pages the...
May 2011
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Radio 4 Today
I was pleased to hear the interview carried out by John Humphries this morning on the Today programe with the young woman who told of her sexual abuse when she was a child. Whilst the NSPCC representative emphasised that this is a serious issue and that they believe that childhood sexual abuse is on the increase I was disappointed that he did not take the opportunity to give some of the...
Wonderful time at the Swindon Literary festival!
Yesterday my interview with Hilda Schlon took place at the Arts Centre Swindon, as part of this year’s Literary Festival. Whilst feeling very nervous at the outset, I soon relaxed into the interview – greatly helped by Hilda’s enquiring mind and gentle questioning. A great plus was that she had read the book. During the interview I read two of the...
April 2011
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Easter Blog
Good Morning Tweethearts – I may be out of the loop for a week or two so whilst I am away – keep loyal and take good care of each other.
In the meantime here is something for you to ponder over Easter:
READ- Isaiah 53 – (Isaiah spoke these words 740 years before Jesus was born.)
“……. He is despised and rejected by men. A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid our...
#5petals
I have received another letter from a lady who is struggling with the long term effects of sexual abuse - she has given me permission to use her words:
“At times I just want the pain and hurt to stop and to be able to find safe channels for all the anger; to be able to find a time of peace and calm in my life away from all the depression and anxiety. ”
She felt compelled to write to me after...
Child hood sexual abuse is insidious and devastating.
30% of the 1 in 5 women who have experienced childhood sexual abuse never tell anyone what happened. They carry it throughout their life as a shameful secret. These women need a voice to speak up for them; society needs to know that this is an epidemic and that it is damaging life potential for so many people.
When I wrote ‘Because you’re a...
March 2011
4 posts
@BigFashionista has opened an interesting can of worms here. Blogging can provide a shield for your true persona, but can it also be a safe way to show your true feelings, the real you?
I think that, to some extent, we all have a persona that we like to present to the world. But the big question is why?
Is it because as humans we want to be liked and/or loved, and we believe that the real ‘me’ is...
“At the moment of trauma the victim is utterly helpless. Unable to defend herself, she cries for help, but no-one comes to her aid. The memory of this experience pervades all subsequent relationships. The greater the child’s emotional conviction of emotional helplessness and abandonment, the more she desperately needs the need for an omnipotent rescuer. But because the child feels as though her...
This is the link to my event at the Swindon Literature Festival, http://www.swindonfestivalofliterature.co.uk/11-wed.html -
Thank you to all my supporters on facebook and twitter. I am looking forward to this event very much, even though a little nervous.
Jacky Cook- editor of Warwickshire Living magazine commented: ”I am so pleased the book has been chosen for a slot at the Swindon...
A Guilty Secret
@BigFashionista @SarahBrownUK Please Support http://www.facebook.com/pages/TAALK-Breaking-the-Silence-that-Surrounds-Child-Sexual-Abuse/99667659907 #sexualabuse #silence stats at www.jacki-rodikis.co.uk/abuse.htm
Why is it so difficult for victims to disclose their abuse?
Why is this still a subject that, as a society, we tend to sweep under the carpet?
These two questions are inextricably...
February 2011
4 posts
Warwickshire Living
Many thanks to Jacky Cook for a fabulous article about ‘Because you’re a Woman’ in the February issue of Warwickshire Living Magazine. She has taken the time to read the book and has written a comprehensive article explaining what the book is really about -inspiring other women to face and surmount the issues and difficulties that life throws at us - click here to read the...
Being
“What is important first and foremost is to be:
what people need of us is not busyness, but our
unhurried attention, and insight and perception…
To see what others miss: to see with clear eyes
the disorder and confusion of the world, but also
to discern and interpret God’s hidden presence
within it as its continuous creator, redeemer and
reconciler; saying, as an artist...
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Jacki Rodikis on Social Media
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Online: http://www.jacki-rodikis.co.uk/
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About the book
This is my daddy, and I want him to love me.” These words encapsulate the torment of a little girl who is made to believe that in order to be loved she has to submit to anything that is asked. The girl grows up; she becomes a mother. But the damage is done and the time-bomb keeps ticking until the birth of her daughter, almost 30 years later, when it throws her into a series of events that...