Survivor Corps: Jun 21, 2008

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Surviving and thriving

When Jerry White, then a college junior, stepped on a landmine in Israel, he lost a part of his right leg. But, what he gained was a life’s purpose and the strength to help others.

I Will Not Be Broken (book giveaway)

I just started reading the book I Will Not Be Broken: 5 Steps To Overcoming A Life Crisis by Jerry White. Mr White is the founder of Survivor Corps; he lost a leg in a landmine accident in 1984.

I Will Not Be Broken - book review

I was approached about a month ago by Dani Savilla from Survivor Corps to review the book I Will Not Be Broken: Five Steps to Overcoming a Life Crisis, http://iwillnotbebroken.org by Jerry White. Dani was so enthusiastic about the book that I decided to give it a read.

Mightier than the Sword. . .

You have to see where you have been. Or so they say. I believe it’s true.

As author Jerry White said: everyone has a date with disaster. Sooner or later, no matter how good or bad a person, everyone slams directly into uncomfortable, life altering emotions or events. And then, for a time, perhaps forever, life becomes divided into before and after. Before this happened, all of this. After, all of that.

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Blog Posts in Support of I Will Not Be Broken by Jerry White

A big part of what my firm, Abraham Harrison LLC, does is online outreach and blogger relations. We’re doing our first book promotion campaign for our client, Survivor Corps, and Jerry White’s new book, I Will Not Be Broken: Five Steps to Overcoming a Life Crisis, and we have been

In Support of I Will Not Be Broken by Jerry White

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Blog Posts in Support of I Will Not Be Broken by Jerry White

Blog Mentions of I Will Not Be Broken by Jerry White

Since I Will Not Be Broken: Five Steps to Overcoming a Life Crisis was released just about a month ago, there has been quite a lot of excitement over our new book, written by our co-founder, Jerry White. Survivor Corps' mission has been powerfully written into this new and exciting book. Here are a bunch of the blog posts that we have been able to collect over the last few weeks of active promotion to bloggers:

Be Generous, Not Stingy, When Engaging Bloggers

Andy Sernovitz’s blog’s name says it all, and definitely reflects my response to reading this: Damn, I Wish I’d Thought of That!, especially in his post Instant Word of Mouth for Restaurants. From our experience doing blogger outreach and blogger gift-giving, this is on-the-money advice you should all consider:

On Survivor Corps’ Blogger Outreach

Norman Birnbach just posted the first part in a series of articles about a recent blogger PR outreach that my company, Abraham Harrison, did on behalf of Survivor Corps. It is a very generous article and everyone here is very pleased.

REVIEW: "I Will Not Be Broken" by Jerry White

I Will Not Be Broken starts with the horrific tale of how author Jerry White lost his leg while in Israel. But the book is not an auto-biography, but rather a collection of stories from people from all walks of life who faced some of the grimmest

Be My Guest

Well my friends we are quickly approaching Act II of the show called “Chemotherapy”. It’s that time already where I have to repeat that ugly cycle of sitting still for three to four hours while I receive chemo through an IV.

hooray for dads.

Feeding the geese in Greenville, South Carolina near my grandparents house in 1979.

Over the years, he's worn the hat of coach, teacher, boss, chauffeur, traveling buddy, accountant, protector and "official peptalk giver." And that's just the short list.

Book Review: I Will Not Be Broken, by Jerry White

Typically a book review isn’t something I’d do here. Not that I don’t read–oh, no. I probably read more than anyone you know. Seriously. I just don’t tend to review the books I read. I never feel like I can get my point across as eloquently as the author did in the first place. Will I recommend books? Yes. Review them? Not likely.

If You Want to Move, Push (A Book Review)

I posted this on my military blog, A Soldier’s Perspective, as well.

The title of this post was taken from Jerry White’s book, “I Will Not Be Broken: 5 Steps to Overcoming a Life Crisis.” If that sounds familiar, it’s because the book is one of the raffle prizes from the JROTC fundraiser (which we’ve concluded as an early success thanks to YOU).

If You Want to Move, Push (A Book Review)

The title of this post was taken from Jerry White's book, "I Will Not Be Broken: 5 Steps to Overcoming a Life Crisis." If that sounds familiar, it's because the book is one of the raffle prizes from the JROTC fundraiser (which we've concluded as an early success thanks to YOU).

snippets of grief

“After the worst happens, the two most common pyschological responses are known as intrusion and avoidance. Intrusion involves suddenly relieving a traumatic experience, and can include nightmares and flahbacks…

Avoidance - the repression of painful memories - is the other coping device we use in the face of disaster.”

- Jerry White (I Will Not Be Broken)

Changes

The month of June has barely begun and already there have been quite a number of changes in my life. The most visible change is the new colour of my blog………..I LOVE red!!!!!!!!

I would have made the template red in the first place its just that I have always tried to

awesomely free summer reading

The following are all now sans-copyright, freely available, no DRM, etc. offered by Gutenberg.org. Since they offer txt format, you can download it in a way that makes it readable on most platforms, and easy to transfer to another platform if you need to. Plus, the below were probably on some reading list you were supposed to read at some point anyway…besides being touchstones of our culture.

A Few Promotional Items

One of the things we also like to do is pass along a few reviews or insider information on books, music, movies, and tv shows. I've got two things to chat about briefly...

Reach Out

No one survives on their own, and no one thrives alone, either. Yes, you might feel an excruciating loneliness after one of life's hurtful blows. But we are simply not built to survive solo.

The Futility of Why.

It is normal to question, but you will never get a satisfactory answer, and you’ll only waste your time. The past is the past, and facts are facts.

Jerry White (I Will Not Be Broken)

Updatarandomeme

Some sort of update thing today, eh? And a meme that’s been floating around. And some other random shit. Will that work for you? Good, because that’s all I got.

First up, Happy Birthday witchypoo! Go say hi to her and wish her many happy returns, eh?
Go over here and cast your vote for the Rack. (Pssst. #27… they look hot don’t they?)

Living in Gravity

I was in our local hospital emergency room the other night. I was comforting my 10 year old daughter awaiting a surgical repair to her broken and dislocated arm. All the rooms were full with some degree of trauma and pain. This is not exceptional, emergency room visits occur over 114 million times a year in the United States alone. We live in a world with gravity, as my ten year old

How Do You Establish Metrics for a Blogging Initiative? Take a page from the campaign for Jerry White's book

BusinessWeek's recent cover story, "Beyond Blogs: Three years ago our cover story showcased the phenomenon. A lot has changed since then,"raised -- or raised again -- the question about business and blogs.

May Inspiration for 2008

Inspiration can come in any form, and this month it came in a book I just finished reading, and from a good friend of ours who wrote it.

I Will Not Be Broken - Jerry White

I love to read books about people, their lives, their loves. When they're true stories; when they have a wisdom to impart, it's even better.

Change Nation: Jerry White

After losing a limb in a landmine blast 25 years ago, Jerry White turned his horrific experience into positive activism, becoming a leader of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. He is also the co-founder and executive director of Survivor Corps,

Reach Out - excerpt from the book I Will Not Be Broken

No one survives on their own, and no one thrives alone, either. Yes, you might feel an excruciating loneliness after one of life's hurtful blows. But we are simply not built to survive solo. Isolation will kill us, not protect us. We humans are social animals made for community. Even when family and friends annoy the hell out of us, they remain an essential part of our survivorship.

Reach Out

June 2

I just got my hard copy of Jerry White’s book I WILL NOT BE BROKEN. Yay! It’s so lovely. Can’t wait to tuck into it. I’ll let you all know what I think about it and share the nuggets of wisdom I know are hidden between the covers.

Life Crisis Survival

Co-creation, Latest Buzzword from C.K. Prahalad -- this is the article to read this week. It builds on the idea I've been pushing the last year "whoever taps into the most brains wins" and emphasizes the importance of tapping into the creativity

Valuable insights and inspiration from Jerry White (Survivor Corps)

Start your day off right with this excellent Q&A on Guy Kawasaki’s blog titled “The Art of Survival: an Interview with Jerry White“. My favorite snippets, laid bare:

“We humans have an uncanny ability to reframe our thoughts and choose to find meaning in our scars.

The Art of Survival / After FlipSide

Austin has changed my life and the change has been apparent to me for months now. It's been a very strange mix of remembering who I was, who I thought I was and being completely unsure of what I want to be now. How many times have I said that in my life?

In Support of I will Not Be Broken by Jerry White

I will not be broken

Have you ever heard of Survivor Corps? I have to confess I hadn’t - but like me you probably do remember the late Princess Diana stepping bravely out against the use of landmines. That movement to ban landmines went on to win a nobel peace prize - and one its leaders

Reframing Survival

Jerry White, landmine survivor and cofounder of Survivor Corps [1], shares his own healing process while advising those who are suffering from tragedy in I Will Not Be Broken: Five Steps to Overcoming a Life Crisis. [2] White seeks to turn “tragedy into triumph,”

'I Will Not Be Broken'

I wish I had an extra day a week so that I could dig into my growing pile of books. This would be on the pile: I Will Not Be Broken: Five Steps to Overcoming a Life Crisis by Jerry White.

Landmine survivor writes about coping with crisis

Jerry White, who lost a leg when he stepped on a landmine in Israel in 1984, is a co-founder of Survivor Corps, a group dedicated to helping the victims of violent conflicts around the world. He's been active in the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, which shared the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize

Jerry White's 'I Will Not Be Broken' for a Military Audience

Americans start to feel the ripple effects of war and violence.

The United States is at war, and the home front is hurting. One and a half million Americans have served in military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Over 4,000 are dead. Nearly thirty thousand have been physically wounded. Over 300,000 now suffer from invisible psychological wounds. Traumatic Brain Injury and Post

"I Will Not Be Broken"

That's the title of a new book which, while it is not specifically about the LGBT community, it does cover some topics that are of value to everyone, perhaps every particularly LGBT people. The information below is from the official website for the book. I was contacted and asked if I would post something here about the book, and I am happy to do so.

I Will Not Be Broken

book on overcoming life crises by Nobel Peace Prize winner Jerry White

Survivor Corps

I've recently been made aware of an organization called Survivor Corps.
It's a non-profit group working to help the victims of global violence,

I Will Not Be Broken

The United States is at war, and the home front is hurting. One and a half million Americans have served in military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Over 4,000 are dead. Nearly thirty thousand have been physically wounded. Over 300,000 now suffer from invisible psychological wounds. Traumatic Brain Injury and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder have been called the signature injuries of these conflicts.

Monday Potpourri of Things to Pass On

Obviously, I had no "Soldiers Angels Web Surfing" post on Friday.....last week was just hectic, and my work schedule was the same. This past weekend, I actually Never got on the computer at All,lol.....(I know,gasp...what is the world coming to?) and so I missed my Own Anniversary of One Year of Soldiers Angels Web Surfing on May 18th....sheesh, "dorks r us", I saved the link to my post a year ago for the whole month of May,lol, and then forget to log in on the anniversary date :)

Monday Potpourri of Things to Pass On

FIVE STEPS FOR OVERCOMING A LIFE CRISIS

Jerry White has recently published an extraordinary book (entitled "I will not be broken") which I have ordered on Amazon tonight. He is the co-founder of Survivor Corps (formerly Landmine Survivors Newwork). His changed in 1984 when he lost his leg in a landmine explosion while visiting Israel. After this experience he has championed the cause of survivorship and became a leader in the International Campaign to Ban Landmines

5 Steps to Overcoming a Life Crisis

"Everyone feels vulnerability in the face of cataclysmic loss" writes Jerry White in a book I will not be Broken.

http://www.realitysandwich.com/reframing_survival

Jerry White, landmine survivor and cofounder of Survivor Corps, shares his own healing process while advising those who are suffering from tragedy in I Will Not Be Broken: Five Steps to Overcoming a Life Crisis.

Survival

The Art of Survival: An Interview with Jerry White found on Guy Kawasaki’s blog, How to Change the World

Of all the articles and stories I read this week this one stuck with me. I am fascinated by how much of what Jerry White has learned through is own personal tragedy translates to all of us and how we go through life.

Surviving a failed project

I read an excellent post from Guy Kawasaki's blog, How to change the world. The post was an interview with Jerry White, the co-founder of Survivor Corps. The interview focused on the art of survival. How do you go on after a tragedy, how do you move away from that event?

Reach Out

No one survives on their own, and no one thrives alone, either. Yes, you might feel an excruciating loneliness after one of life’s hurtful blows. But we are simply not built to survive solo. Isolation will kill us, not protect us. We humans are social animals made for community. Even when family and friends annoy the hell out of us, they remain an essential part of our survivorship.

The Art of Survival: An Interview with Jerry White

Jerry (no, not "Jeremiah") Wright gets it...Well, at least I will say that his thoughts/philosophies echo those I have formed on the basis of my international travels/life experience

The art of survival

Jerry White is the co-founder of Survivor Corps

(formerly Landmine Survivors Newwork). His changed in 1984 when he lost his leg in a landmine explosion while visiting Israel. After this experience he has championed the cause of survivorship and became a leader in the International Campaign to Ban Landmines

. In 1997 he shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Jody Williams for his efforts. He recently published a book called I Will Not Be Broken: Five Steps to Overcoming a Life Crisis.

Liamvictor

Rocking back and forth like a psycho in his mother's house dress. I've a collection of "webmaster", linux etc tips which I really should turn into a blog one day. SmirkingLoon is a depositary of stuff I've found interesting. Bigger Brighter Better a collection of affirmations I'm hoping to develop. I'd be grateful for your comments.

my food for thought for today

sure, i have not lost a limb in landmine but, i think we have all faced crises in our lives that can feel like we have lost a limb, lost faith or lost ourselves. i’m the first to admit that i have and i know i will again. I just aim to not cause them myself as much. That may be a sign that I’m conceding a little to growing up. Who knows, really.

"jerry white"

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"I Will Not Be Broken": The Book by Jerry White, Survivor Corps

I have not read this book ... but this looks like a worthwhile read for those who are struggling to rise above circumstances from their past or present. So I wanted to pass it on to you!

I Will Not Be Broken by Jerry White

Every once in a while Abraham Harrison gets a great activist client. Clients like Jerry White and the gang at Survivor Corps really make it easy to be the World's Best Boss, because my staff loves public affairs and non-profit work, that's for sure -- clients who do good works and work to change the world for the better.

Boylston Street (Boston) Apple Store Opens Thursday [World of Apple]

The Apple Store that we’ve seen grow from merely plans and a rendering to the real thing is finally upon up. The Boylston Street Apple Store in Boston is due to open this Thursday evening at 6.00pm EST.

Dealing With Life Crises

Hello readers,I'm very sorry for the long silence that has been characterising this blog for sometime. I promise you it'll all be over soon.

Life crises are unavoidable experiences which everyone of us must pass through. It is not to be bargained.

The Art of Survival: An Interview with Jerry White

Jerry White is the co-founder of Survivor Corps (formerly Landmine Survivors Newwork). His life changed in 1984 when he lost his leg in a landmine explosion while visiting Israel. After this experience he has championed the cause of survivorship and became a leader in the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.

I Will Not Be Broken by Jerry White - Book Excerpt

There is much at stake. Embracing the patterns of victimhood has cost the human race a great deal. Headlines of terrorism, violence, and disaster assault us with increasing frequency. And the mass of victims grows daily. Individuals blame one another. Communities put up walls. Nations blame nations. How can we turn the victim tide,

I Will Not Be Broken: Five Steps to Overcoming a Life Crisis

Copies of I Will Not Be Broken Now Available Online and at Stores Nationwide

Leveraging personal experience and a lifetime of wisdom, landmine survivor Jerry White outlines a very specific five-step program to coping with disaster; to achieving strength and hope; and to turning tragedy into triumph

The Art of Survival: An Interview with Jerry White

Jerry White is the co-founder of Survivor Corps

(formerly Landmine Survivors Newwork). His changed in 1984 when he lost his leg in a landmine explosion while visiting Israel.

jerry white - i will not be broken

there's a must-read interview with jerry white on guy kawasaki's how to change the world blog today that he is calling "the art of survival." jerry white co-founded survivor corps, an organization was a co-recipient of the nobel peace prize that has

I'm un-jinxing myself!

SO...here's my theory...the guys at the blogworld expo in Las Vegas last year jinxed me!
You know those guys that were promoting a blogging movie out of a VW bug? They handed out stickers that read "I Can't Stop Blogging". After Jack and I arrived home with our bags o swag (stuff we all get at these expo thingys), I put my sticker on my new laptop. As ridiculously

I Will Not Be Broken

I will be the first to admit that I am not a book reviewer or even a professional blogger for that matter. Recently a book was brought to my attention that I felt compelled to let everyone know about. The book is titled "I Will Not Be Broken" and the author is Jerry White.

I Will Not Be Broken

Though we don’t ever fully “recover” from devastation and loss, we can and must integrate our toughest experiences and move on to become Survivors.

Excerpt: I Will Not Be Broken

I Will Not Be Broken: Five Steps to Overcoming a Life Crisis by Jerry White

I don’t usually respond to press releases, but the one announcing I Will Not Be Broken: Five Steps to Overcoming a Life Crisis by Jerry White interested me enough that I checked out the intro and first chapter, which are available online.

SYNOPSIS

Swallow is the story of two friends Tolani and Rose; working class girls from entirely different backgrounds with nothing in common except their hustle and struggle not to be crushed by the society. They work at the Federal Community Bank and through their experiences; we see the way people in authority take advantage of those under them and we experience their hardships and frustrations.

Choose Life

Crisis and pain can hold us hostage for a time, but we still have a choice in how we will respond to our circumstances, no matter how dire. When something disrupts our life, how do we move forward?

Dealing with loss (my experience)

In November of 2006 I lost my cousin to a fatal road accident. It was even more harrowing because I had known him for little over 10 years; both families had recently become reconciled. He was also one of my favorite cousins.

I will Not Be Broken

This could very well be a cry from the heart of many people today but it is also a book written by Jerry White. Life sometimes hands us more than we think we can bear; but we need to be able to stand up tall and say I Will Not Be Broken!

Review: I Will Not Be Broken

When he was a college student in Israel in the mid-1980s, a landmine--leftovers of the 1967 War--blew Jerry White's world apart, taking a leg but leaving him with a big choice. Would he become a victim of an accident and live in bitterness and self-pity, or would he choose life?

Thursday Thirteen: 'I Will Not Be Broken'

I Will Not Be Broken by Jerry White

I Will Not Be Broken

The Five Steps of Survival from a survivor of an Israeli land mine explosion, for us as cancer survivors.

1. Face Facts. One must first accept the harsh reality about suffering and loss, however brutal. “This terrible thing has happened. It can’t be changed. I can’t rewind the clock. So now what?”

I will Not be broken

I had a look at the website and I think the book is worth recommending to others, even though it was not written by somebody affected by cancer.

Unbroken

At the age of 20, Jerry White lost his leg – and nearly his life – as he stepped on a landmine while on a camping trip in Israel. Later, he went on to work as a leader of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines and become co-founder of Survivor Corps.

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