Law and Order: Special Victims Unit

One of the only shows I watch every week is Law and Order: SVU.  In some ways I torture myself every week...it is an extremely anxiety provoking hour usually...but...Perhaps it is the poetic justice of the show that draws me; Liv, one of the main characters, is a sexual abuse/assault survivor and she spends her life locking away the sons of bitches that perpetrate those types of crimes.  Secretly, I hope to be like her someday.  She is real (okay, she is acting :)  but she does a great job creating reality...anyway...and she is most effective with her victims when she honestly shares from within herself.  She is strong and she doesn't take any shit; I like her.  My favorite parts of the show are when she looks in the hopeless eyes of the victims and shares hope and strength with them, beyond what her job even demands of her.  I would love to share strength and hope with those who don't have alot of that...  Anyway, tonight she made a statement I liked... "If you can survive the abuse, you can survive the recovery."

The recovery and the aftermath can feel like hell sometimes, but really it is nothing compared to the abuse, compared to the actual events themselves...