| Name: | Mary Byrne |
| Email: | paintzel{at}aol.com |
| Where are you from: | Warwick, RI 02886 |
| Comments: | We met a few years ago when my group was addressing the soldiers at, Natick, Ma. I bought your book and Beauty Out of the Ashes. I too, am a survivor. I finally read your book and wanted to say it is amazing. I didn't think I could learn anything new, at this point in my life. I have been working with victims for so many years, but I must tell you I did learn something new from you. God Bless you for your amazing work and thank you for teaching me something I should have already realized but didn't. I wish we had more time to talk when we met but I guess we were not supposed to as I was not supposed to read your book until yesterday, when I needed it the most. I hope you are well as you continue doing God's work. Bless you always. Regards, Mary L. Byrne |
| July 15, 2023 17:52:00 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Linda Lee (Foltz) Blaikemore |
| Email: | lindaleeblakemore{at}gmail.com |
| Where are you from: | Pennsylvania |
| Comments: | “Intensely personal, bravely revealing, and deeply inspiring, Barbara’s story will help each of us heal, forgive, and identify the God shaped hole only God can fill in our hearts. Her ministry, like her book, is essential and unparalleled. A must read.” Linda Lee (Foltz) Blakemore, Advocate, Speaker, Author of Entrenched: A Memoir of Holding on and Letting Go and Kids Helping Kids Break the Silence of Sexual Abuse. |
| September 5, 2021 17:41:43 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Linda Lee Blakemore |
| Email: | Lindaleeblakemore{at}gmail.com |
| Where are you from: | |
| Comments: | Barbara, I just finished your book. It is Intensely personal, bravely revealing, and deeply inspiring, Your story will help each of us heal, forgive, identify, and fill the God shaped hole only God can fill in our hearts. Your ministry , like your book, is essential and unparalleled. Thank you for sharing your story!” Linda Lee (Foltz) Blakemore, Advocate, Speaker, Author of Entrenched: A Memoir of Holding on and Letting Go and Kids Helping Kids Break the Silence of Sexual Abuse. |
| August 31, 2021 10:58:12 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Pamela Martin |
| Email: | pamelamartin{at}deafvictimadvocatepam.com |
| Where are you from: | Beckley WV |
| Comments: | I loved your post and am greatly encouraged by how long you have been fighting this fight on behalf of those that can’t fight for themselves. |
| November 7, 2020 01:04:51 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Betty C. Dudney M.T. |
| Email: | equality4peace{at}yahoo.com |
| Where are you from: | Nashville TN. |
| Comments: | Children most close to God. |
| August 19, 2020 11:10:07 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Cherie White |
| Email: | CherieWhite69{at}gmail.com |
| Where are you from: | Covington, TN |
| Comments: | Barbara, I'm reading your website and blog and, I just have to say that I have such respect for you and your work. It takes incredible strength to use the abuse you went through to help other victims of abuse. Thank you for connecting. I look forward to speaking with you soon. |
| July 16, 2020 15:20:00 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Jo Calk |
| Email: | jclk123{at}outlook.com |
| Where are you from: | National Association of Adult Survivors of Child Abuse |
| Comments: | Hi, Bobbie Joy! Thank you for allowing NAASCA to interview you for our newsletter! Your wonderful interview will be in the January 2020 NAASCA Newsletter! Your openness and your courage are inspirations to others, and I hope the NAASCA Newsletter will encourage more people to contact you and call into your show. We at NAASCA are proud to have you as one of our amazing co-hosts! Blessings, Jo Secretary, National Association of Adult Survivors of Child Abuse |
| November 23, 2019 03:54:36 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Marie DeLuca |
| Email: | mysteriouslove56{at}gmail.com |
| Where are you from: | Metro West. Massachusetts |
| Comments: | I am a survivor of physical and mental abuse. And sex abuse.I am now 60 year's old. But have anxiety and PTSD. It's eating me alive.cant sleep well. As a result I now have fibromyalgia. And many other health issues. |
| September 20, 2019 13:39:36 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Robert Braunstein |
| Email: | robertbraunstein{at}comcast.net |
| Where are you from: | Sharon, MA |
| Comments: | Hello Barbara Joy, We were Jumping with Joy (literally and figuratively) to learn that you were invited back for a well-deserved encore panel discussion on the following evening, and that you will be a co-host every three weeks hereafter. We listened to your entire panel discussion session, and thought it was as good as, if not better than the previous evening, if that could be possible. You, and all the other panelists proffered so much insight and understanding to every scenario discussed, based upon each person’s own vast, profound personal experiences. Without intending to sound morbid, we sincerely hope and pray that the epitaph on your tombstone, that you mentioned, will not be inscribed until long after your mission on earth has been completed. May you, too, be blessed! |
| February 20, 2019 23:34:42 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Robert Braunstein |
| Email: | robertbraunstein{at}comcast.net |
| Where are you from: | Sharon, MA |
| Comments: | today we were so very pleased to succeed in connecting to the Archive link to hear your compelling story. Throughout the entire Pod Cast, we thought you were so inspiring in articulating your traumatic early life experiences, how you pursued the very lengthly and difficult healing process by writing your book, working with prisoners, and always being available to support other victims. We sincerely hope your journey forward will continue to enable you to triumph over your many adversities. |
| February 20, 2019 21:33:58 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Esther Ross |
| Email: | erosses{at}gmail.com |
| Where are you from: | Nashua, New Hampshire |
| Comments: | In generations past, our elders kept secrets to themselves and that was our inheritance. The price we paid was enormous and the costs were both indelible and invisible to many. Burdened, depths of despair, silence was our legacy.We had to have freed ourselves because no human beings should have to have holes in their hearts and holes in their souls. Barbara Joy Hansen's book, "Listen to the Cry of the Child," details a journey of abuse through hell yet lifts us up, challenges us to be and become the best of God's children.A secret past or present should never be our legacy.Read this book and know "to listen" so you are doing God's work too like Barbara Joy Hansen is doing for all of us by revealing her story & is a woman of valor! Powerful, courageous, enlightening and it made me want to leave the right legacy for all of our children. BY: Esther Ross, author of "Fast Track for Caregivers." Rosstrum Publishing http://www.rosstrumpublishing.com |
| February 6, 2018 15:35:51 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | esther ross |
| Email: | erossea{at}gmail.com |
| Where are you from: | Nashua, NH |
| Comments: | In generations past, our elders kept secrets to themselves and that was our inheritance. The price we paid was enormous and the costs were both indelible and invisible to many. Burdened, depths of despair, silence was our legacy.We had to have freed ourselves because no human beings should have to have holes in their hearts and holes in their souls. Barbara Joy Hansen's book, "Listen to the Cry of the Child," details a journey of abuse through hell yet lifts us up, challenges us to be and become the best of God's children.A secret past or present should never be our legacy.Read this book and know "to listen" so you are doing God's work too like Barbara Joy Hansen is doing for all of us by revealing her story. Powerful, courageous, enlightening and it made me want to leave the right legacy for all of our children. BY: Esther Ross, author of "Fast Track for Caregivers." |
| February 5, 2018 22:18:03 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Esther Ross |
| Email: | erossea{at}bmail.com |
| Where are you from: | Nashua, New Hampshire |
| Comments: | In generations past, our elders kept secrets to themselves and that was our inheritance. The price we paid was enormous and the costs were both indelible and invisble to many. Burdened, depths of despair, silence was our legacy. We had to have freed ourselves because no human beings should have to have holds in their hearts and holes in their souls. Barbara Joy Hansen's book, "Listen to the Cry of the Child," details a journey of abuse through hell yet lifts us up, challenges us to be and become the best of God's children. A secret past or present should never be our legacy. Read this book and know "to listen" so you are doing God's work too like Barbara Joy Hansen is doing for all of us by revealing her story. She is a woman of valor! Powerful, courageous, enlightening and it made me want to leave the right legacy for all of our children. BY: Esther Ross, author of "Fast Track for Caregivers." http://www.rosstrumpublishing.com |
| February 5, 2018 19:07:18 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | SC |
| Email: | Godsings{at}live.ca |
| Where are you from: | Canada |
| Comments: | Hello Barbara, I don't know if you would remember me, but I met & talked with you at PASCH Conference 2011 in Canada. I have kept the sticky-note you wrote on for me since then in my Bible, awaiting the right time to reconnect with you. You were such an encouragement to me at that time. . . I was in such deep pain! You looked right into my heart, saw my pain & called me out of it. You wrote: "Joel 2:25-27 "I will restore to you the years that the locusts have stolen; no more shame; I will be praying for your restoration." & asked me to e-mail you. Well here I am now. Barbara, God is about the business of restoring what the enemy had destroyed! I am still with my husband, though have had some separation. I had to stand up & say 'no more", calling him to something higher, while being willing to give everything up, even the understanding of my children if need be. God has done/and is still doing His amazing work. He has even led a men's group to help men change their abusive mind |
| October 31, 2017 16:35:12 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | SC |
| Email: | Godsings{at}live.ca |
| Where are you from: | Canada |
| Comments: | Hello Barbara, I don't know if you would remember me, but I met & talked with you at PASCH Conference 2011 in Canada. I have kept the sticky-note you wrote on for me since then in my Bible, awaiting the right time to reconnect with you. You were such an encouragement to me at that time. . . I was in such deep pain! You looked right into my heart, saw my pain & called me out of it. You wrote: "Joel 2:25-27 "I will restore to you the years that the locusts have stolen; no more shame; I will be praying for your restoration." & asked me to e-mail you. Well here I am now. Barbara, God is about the business of restoring what the enemy had destroyed! I am still with my husband, though have had some separation. I had to stand up & say 'no more", calling him to something higher, while being willing to give everything up, even the understanding of my children if need be. God has done/and is still doing His amazing work. He has even led a men's group to help men change their abusive mind |
| October 31, 2017 16:34:39 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Ravi Chikatla |
| Email: | ravichikatla{at}yahoo.com |
| Where are you from: | Andhra Pradesh - India |
| Comments: | dear beloved in Jesus, I Greet you from India in the Almighty name of our soon Coming Lord Jesus Christ! I am Pastor Ravi Chikatla, working in the costal, interior, hill, forest, remote, slum and tribal areas to lead lots of people from the darkness into the light - Rom 15:20, 21, 1Cor 1:23. This gospel truth heard by many people and they too started choosing Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior and they are taking baptism and fallowing His preachings. I am willing to be as a Representative / Coordinator on behalf of you in my State of Andhra Pradesh - India. If you do not have any branch in The State of our Andhra Pradesh in India, let us work together to win the lost in this end time - Ps 133:1, 1Jn 1:3. It’s my commitment / agreement with you to work with your fellowship until I die - Mt 9:37, Jn4:35, 36, 2Tim 4:5. I need your help & support for my orphan children care ministry. please help me to provide sufficient food, education and shelter. tell this need with your f |
| August 10, 2017 14:10:07 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Ptr.DouglasRoberts |
| Email: | dougandimelda{at}ymail.com |
| Where are you from: | Chestertown N.Y. & Davao City, Philippines |
| Comments: | Hi Barb , looking to your ministry and our conversation this weekend.Bro. Doug and Mel Roberts |
| February 3, 2017 22:59:12 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Grace Durbin |
| Email: | grace{at}restinlove.org |
| Where are you from: | Oklahoma |
| Comments: | "The broken carry the broken and the unloved love the unloved. That's survival." And darling, you do it just beautifully. Keep shouting. Keep sharing your story! Isaiah 40:31 has been my verse since I was a child. Standing in advocacy with you, while waiting for wings. Soldier on. ♥ |
| April 6, 2016 18:23:20 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Natalie Parrish |
| Email: | Anartistmind{at}gmail.com |
| Where are you from: | San Diego, CA |
| Comments: | We met about 3 years ago I believe. You changed my life. Thank you! We were just talking and somehow we began to speak of our similar pasts. I spoke of how I'd been trying to write a book because God called me to, because if it helps just One person that's great! You spoke so incredibly about your book and experience and gave me your card. You've helped change my life!!! I've forgiven my dad! Now I know how the birds feel, and why I've always admired them, especially Cardinals. I'm happier and more joyful! God does use us to help others. And yes my book will be written, right now I'm studying to be a Youth Pastor! Gods Plan for me! I'm in love with His Plan! So, THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS! Natalie |
| February 14, 2016 07:25:16 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Wayne Hansen |
| Email: | whansen43{at}juno.com |
| Where are you from: | Milford, Massachusetts |
| Comments: | Checking out your new website, it looks awesome. |
| January 16, 2016 22:35:46 (GMT Time) |
