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Welcome — You’re Not Alone Here

Hi, I’m Mike McBride. I’m a survivor of childhood abuse, and I’ve also walked through the deep valleys of depression, dissociation, and even a suicide attempt. This space is deeply personal to me — it’s where I share my journey, not because I seek recognition, but because I believe in the power of connection and the healing that comes from knowing you’re not alone.

This site is a safe place for survivors, supporters, and anyone seeking to understand the long road of healing. This site, along with all the social media accounts linked above, is dedicated to spreading awareness, education, and support for all survivors.

I’m glad you found it.

Here, you’ll find:

  • Personal reflections on trauma, recovery, and resilience
  • Educational resources about mental health and abuse
  • Curated articles and commentary on current issues affecting survivors
  • Community support through shared stories and experiences

I also share my interests in technology and photography on other sites because healing is also about rediscovering joy and creativity.

Whether you’re here to find hope, learn more, or support someone you care about, I’m happy you found your way here. Please feel free to explore, subscribe, and share — and remember, healing is possible, and you are never alone.

Latest Posts from the Blogs

  • Sharing – Child Abuse Prevention In America (videos & articles)
    We all need more education, so be sure to share it with your network as well, especially with people who have kids or work with them.  The post Sharing – Child Abuse Prevention In America (videos & articles) appeared first on Survivors News and Reviews.
  • Sharing – Don’t look away: Have a conversation about online safety today
    This resource seems like something worth sharing. We spend so much time talking about online safety, banning phones until a certain age, or banning social media, and not enough time making sure we prepare kids for the dangers of being online at all. It's like banning a child from leaving the house without a parent and then sending them to school with no skills for navigating other people on their own. At some point, kids learning about appropriate and inappropriate behavior […]
  • Sharing – Mental health is not an individual matter, but a political one
    It's not that we shouldn't look at the individual cases; we should. But we have to address the systemic harm done to mental health by these issues. We have to stop pretending that economic issues don't create mental health risks and ignore the real harm we do when we do nothing to lift people out of poverty or end racism and economic deprivation beyond calling anyone who wants to do those things a socialist. It's not working. It's not solving the […]
  • Sharing – Why We Oversimplify Psychology
    As Whitney says, and I agree, the real work is in the complexities. That goes for our own mental health issues, healing from abuse, and social issues regarding these topics. We aren't going to solve the mental health crisis by getting people to exercise more. It might help some people, but that one explanation will not work for everyone. We are all much more complex than that simple "fix" would lead us to believe, but believing it reduces the cognitive load […]
  • Sharing – Finding Beauty in the Pieces: A Journey Through Healing
    I love the idea that healing can be messy. Most truly human things worth doing are messy and chaotic. We weren't made to only do easy things, but we are made to grow and heal.  The post Sharing – Finding Beauty in the Pieces: A Journey Through Healing appeared first on Survivors News and Reviews.
  • Sharing – Despite toxic reputation, our research shows podcasts can help men’s mental health
    Despite the very well-known podcasts that are out there telling men to suck it up and quit whining about mental health, there are podcasts helping men with their mental health.  The post Sharing – Despite toxic reputation, our research shows podcasts can help men’s mental health appeared first on Survivors News and Reviews.
  • Sharing – When Your Body Won’t Let You Act
    This is why that quote above rang true for me. You can't act rationally if acting doesn't feel safe, and many of us grew up never feeling safe. To our mind, staying silent and still was the rational choice. Doing something different could have been more dangerous. It was also the natural reaction because we were simply overwhelmed.  The post Sharing – When Your Body Won’t Let You Act appeared first on Survivors News and Reviews.
  • Sharing – The Youth Mental Health Crisis Has a Deeper Cause Than Social Media
    The kids and phones thing was always an easy excuse, but the real mental health issue is much more complicated: The post Sharing – The Youth Mental Health Crisis Has a Deeper Cause Than Social Media appeared first on Survivors News and Reviews.
  • Create Certainty Where You Can
    Like it or not, your team is dealing with a ridiculous amount of uncertainty in and out of the office. Most of it is beyond our control. When we have the opportunity to create less of it, we should do so. We have the opportunity to make a difference for our team, as human beings, just by communicating and setting clear expectations. Why wouldn't we?  The post Create Certainty Where You Can appeared first on Mike McBride Online. If you want to see more like this, consider subscribing to the RSS Feed.
  • Worth Reading – Most workers told Monster their job harms their mental health
    If you look at the contributors to the mental health damage, though, you see things that are avoidable if organizations wanted to avoid them. Fix poor management, address understaffing, pay people what they're worth, and don't lay off workers just to tweak the stock price. Unfortunately, in the current political and economic climate, I don't see enough organizations that want to do any of that. The post Worth Reading – Most workers told Monster their job harms their mental health appeared first on Mike McBride Online. If you want to see more like this, consider subscribing […]
  • Worth Reading – Workplace Abuse, PTSD and Employer Duty of Care
    Employees dealing with trauma outside of work often carry that trauma with them into work, and we need resources to help them navigate that. What do we offer people experiencing trauma at work who carry that trauma into the rest of their lives?  Maybe the better question is, what do we owe them?  The post Worth Reading – Workplace Abuse, PTSD and Employer Duty of Care appeared first on Mike McBride Online. If you want to see more like this, consider subscribing to the RSS Feed.
  • Worth Reading – When Asking for Help Feels Unsafe
    Obviously, this is true in the world of sports, where any perceived weakness can be the difference between a first-round pick contract and no contract, but it's also true in many of the industries all of us work in. In tech, do you want to be perceived as someone who might not be able to produce at the same level as everyone else? In law, do you want to be seen as maybe not able to hack the billable-hour requirements?  Whether either of those perceptions is true is not relevant; the risk of being seen that […]
  • How is the mental health of workers in 2026?
    I often ask that question, but I don’t often see the results of studies in my feed in the same week. This week, however, was different. It’s not all bad news, but if you’re looking for good news, you’ll be hard-pressed to find it. First: New Global Study: One in Three Workers is “Merely Surviving”… The post How is the mental health of workers in 2026? appeared first on Mike McBride Online. If you want to see more like this, consider subscribing to the RSS Feed.
  • Reaction to Death of Rondale Moore and Workplace Mental Health
    This is not just an issue for the NFL or other sports leagues. This is the reality in EVERY workplace. People ask all the time why no one talks about mental health at work, even when you have programs designed to support your employees. This is why. It's the way everyone else in the workplace looks at them, talks to them, avoids them, and treats them differently than they did before they said anything.  The post Reaction to Death of Rondale Moore and Workplace Mental Health appeared first on Mike McBride Online. If you want to […]

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