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Anina Swan is a retired art teacher, child advocate, women’s advocate, author, blogger, and public speaker. Her professional background focused on teaching art as well as writing art curriculum for both private and public schools, kindergarten through twelfth grade. Anina attributes her passion to encourage children through after-school activities, coaching gymnastics, soccer, and skiing, teaching summer art programs as well as serving on staff at a children’s cancer camp, to her own traumatic experiences as a survivor of life-threatening childhood abuse and healing to thrive after crisis. Anina currently speaks and advocates for women victims of crime at women’s conferences and focus groups as well as maintains a blog and website that emerged from her memoir, for her Alligator in the Ocean followers, hosting discussions of critical issues such as crimes against children, child abuse, human trafficking, depression, guilt, and intrusive self-harm thoughts—all of which, she believes, can be overcome through healing and living a life of victory with the goal of being able to move forward in life. Anina uses a pen name to protect the privacy and confidentiality of any and all victims associated with Ivan the Alligator during his forty-year crime spree. Anina Studied at Concordia College in Portland and Chico State University. She serves as the chief operating officer of Anina Swan LLC, an advocacy group, which she manages along with her husband, to help children who are victims of crime and their families.
""What makes this survivor account unique is the way in which Anina Swan has crafted her story to give the reader a glimpse into the rocky road that the journey towards healing from childhood trauma involves. Moving back and forth between child Alexandra’s accounts of events as she lived them, and adult Anina’s vivid descriptions of her attempts to retrieve these memories of her own past, allows the reader for themselves experience some of the confusion and angst that Anina faced when snatches of memory appeared in the course of months of therapy with their meaning alluding her. In my decades of counseling those who have gone through similar hells, the confusion, terror, disbelief, rage, shame, depression, physical symptoms and so on that Anina depicts, gives voice to the experience of countless other childhood trauma survivors.”-Heather Davediuk Gingrich, Ph.D. Director, Graduate Certificate of Trauma Therapy Toccoa Falls College Author of: Restoring the Shattered Self (for counselors/helpers), Shattered No More (for survivors), and co-editor/contributor to Treating Trauma in Christian Counseling.
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