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Ivette Attaud

Ivette Attaud has been a survivor of domestic violence and abuse for over twenty years. Having survived a dating relationship and marriage to her abuser, a Staff Sergeant in the Ar...mehr sehenIvette Attaud has been a survivor of domestic violence and abuse for over twenty years. Having survived a dating relationship and marriage to her abuser, a Staff Sergeant in the Army, she managed to break the chains of her abuser. After five years of extreme violence, abuse, a suicide attempt, a violent physical assault while pregnant with twins that resulted in the death of one of her daughters and a broken shoulder, Ivette left with her two surviving daughters and returned to New York. Ivette served on the Battered Women s Justice Committee of Voices of Women Organizing Project in New York as well as contributed research regarding law guardians to their report Justice Denied: How Family Courts in NYC Endanger Battered Women and Children. She has received numerous awards for speaking at various events, created and facilitated a domestic violence and abuse training for Chaplains and talked to teens in various high schools about dating violence. She has broken her silence with her first self-published book, My Life My Soul, Surviving, Healing And Thriving After An Abusive Relationship, Part 1 will be released in April 2011 under MLMS Publishing, an independent publishing company and subsidiary of My Life My Soul, The Unspoken Journey of Life After Domestic Abuse. Her book chronicles her experience with teen dating violence and relationship abuse and serves as a resource not only for survivors of relationship abuse, but for friends, families and professionals who work with victims of domestic violence. Ivette was the former creator, producer and host of My Life My Soul Talk Radio, a community awareness project of My Life My Soul, a weekly internet radio show centered on raising awareness and encouraging healing from the effects of violence and abuse. She has also published an article in Spotlight on Recovery Magazine entitled, Surviving the Loss of a Child.weniger sehen