You can say that again, and again, and again…
This blog has now been live for 6 months. There has been no response, legal or otherwise, from RJ Testerman or anyone else in his group. They continue only with their campaign of ostracism of me, my family, and anyone who supports me.
Congratulations to me? Yes I suppose so, me and the others who keep me afloat. Honestly without them I’d have sunk into a sea of despair, overwhelmed by loss, frozen by shame and guilt.
My support group and the responses from people who I know keeps me going. The responses from people who I don’t know and have been hurt keeps me resolved. Although this is about me it is bigger than me.
Please share and comment. Thank you for reading!
Christine
A suggestion, in support of what you are doing here: Reach out to publishers. My first thought was that an investigate reporter or media outlet should have a run at Welcomed Consensus. But a book is even better.
Yes I agree, and I considered that. I might still but the book was not immediate enough traction. As far as an article goes that is something in the works. I haven’t had much bandwidth for promotion as content uses me up, but as I find space in my mind this becomes a better possibility. If you come across something you think would be helpful feel free to pass it along, or someone who might want ot help promote me feel free to share all of this 😉
Thank you for your continuing support!
Christine
I like TD’s suggestions above. Please consider.
And to RJ… A man reaps what he sows (Galatians 6:7); bad karma brings bad karma; what goes around comes around, whether in this life or the next, etc. May YOU be a woman in your next life, if there is one, and feel righteous anger seeing women, or being THE woman, who is/are controlled and degraded by a cruel, manipulative, bully.
Maybe some of the women who’ve known you, RJ, will, after a time, thank you, as you’ve stirred up a hornet’s nest that’s needed stirring, much like the one our leader in the Whitehouse, another cruel bully, has provoked.
Thank you, Christine, for your willingness to again share with so many what is so raw.
Hi Kim,
I am working on an article but I can still only touch this so much. It is getting better for sure and I have found real healing through therapy and somatic work, but the general advice is to wear it like a loose shirt. It’s an image that helps.
I will keep working on it though, and the site. I appreciate your support. There are many women who have reached out to me, some are writing up there stories, but this shit is hard. There is an emotional costs for looking at this. All though it is cathartic, it is not so cut and dried. Just because you might finish writing it all the impressions brought up in the telling linger. This is why people prefer to push away painful present and past time. I get it and would love some more voices to post but can wait for people to come to it in there own time. You have bravely jumped into the fray though, you Franklins have always been bad ass. I appreciate your voice.
Truthfully I don’t think it is a hornets nest, more of large turd circling the bowl. It is backed up with all the tissues they have used to try and wipe it clean but even those will eventually dissolve. I think of this site like a big plunger speeding the process along.
I’m working on a post about how the thought reform works in the group, it’s fascinating, and painful of course. but crucial. I’ll send you the update notice 🙂
Christine
Hi Christine,
I’m trying to open blog 1 and blog 2 below and safari says they can’t be opened:
“Here are a couple of stories of folks who worked on the northern California ranch, outside of Yreka, CA. They describe the atmosphere perfectly, blog 1 and blog 2.”
Can you fix? Thanks.
I checked the links and can’t find the broken one, where are you seeing it? In which post?
Thanks for letting me know!
Christine