Clinton News Record, 2014-06-04, Page 1212 News Record • Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Victim of sexual assault finds
healing in the written word
Nikki Cooke
Special to the Signal Star
In an effort to raise awareness and
encourage healing amongst victims of
sexual assault, the Huron Women's
Shelter will be launching a series of
articles this May in conjunction with
Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
The articles are intended to educate
people on the various forms of sexual
assault and abuse that can occur and
local services that are available to help
promote self -healing and moving
forward.
This final article features writings by
Nikki Cooke, who has agreed to share
them to contribute to the overall
message.
My writings come from an ongoing
painful healing journey, which is not
yet complete. They came out of wanting
validation from a felling of worthless-
ness and also a need to express myself.
Being contaminated by sexual abuse
my whole childhood and teen life
caused affects which have carried over
into my adult life and so when the
'Need to Heal' arose I chose a creative
outlet.
Through different forms of mixed
media art, I have been able to express
myself in ways that I was unable how-
ever, when I found it difficult to use
those mediums, I chose the written
form to convey the words that surfaced.
Writing for me has become one of my
most powerful self-protection and self-
preservation tools and as long as I con-
tinue to be creative and have the moti-
vation to use it, it will be my voice.
Coincidently, most of these have been
written when there has been no peace
within the depths of my being only a
constant raging battle from what I
would discover and then I wanted to
scream out but I couldn't so I scratched
myself, I starved myself, I burned
myself, I binged and purged, I cut, I
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took substances but the release did not
last ...so I began to write.
We all need to scream sometimes
however, writing is quieter and a more
peaceful way to let your voice be heard.
Masquerade Party
I believe no matter how far I have
come to grips with the truth, it will take
a lifetime before anyone will ever know
the real me, the, me without one of my
numerous masks. I believe, that as a
child and adolescent growing up aban-
doned, neglected, isolated, verbally,
physically and sexually abused and
endured sexual violence as a teen, to
survive, I learned to adapt to the whims
of others, and I learned to be what was
expected. I learned to manipulate situ-
ations and intimidate if need be. I
learned to be everything to everyone.
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Nikki Cooke
This piece of mixed media art titled Silent Survivor was shared
by Niki Cooke. The Huron Women's Shelter has released a series
of articles over the past month to raise awareness during Sexual
Assault Awareness Month.
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