YoMonkey posted a survey in the forums, hoping that some folks will take the time to help her with a study she is conducting to help high school kids understand the effects of child abuse. You can send her an email from that post with your answers, or, I suppose, you could just answer them there in your own post, whichever you’re more comfortable with. I haven’t answered them myself yet, but I’ll try to soon!
Pin I’ve done therapy before, but this time it’s different. It’s been physical therapy for my knee injury. On the one hand, though, the parallels are interesting, but on the other, the perceptions are totally different. It shouldn’t be that way. First, the similarities: Physical therapy takes time. You don’t go in and get “fixed”. In…
Well here’s the official word from Evan about the Geocities ftp thing. I’m leaning toward relocating just this page to my domain, leaving the rest of the content over here as it is, because I want it to be seperate from that site! Hopefully that will allow me to keep a journal going linked from…
I had to take the forums off-line temporarily. There’s been a security problem with the BB software. I haven’t decided if I’ll bring them back or not once the problem is fixed. I’m just not sure it’s worth the work any more to keep something up to date that gets so little use for folks….
Pin Last week, I spent my time in Washington DC at a legal tech conference. Obviously, that has nothing to do with this blog,, that conference is all part of my day job working in a law firm. But, one thing that is comparable is what I call the “conference bubble”, and the risk it carries…
Pin Somehow, even though this is from 2016, I hadn’t seen it until last night. It’s a TEDx talk by survivor, and advocate Lauren Book. (https://laurenskids.org)
In it. she shares her own story, and some words about going from victim, to advocate and how we can all advocate for children, but the part that really caught my attention was the beginning, and no not just because she uses an air horn. It’s the description of our responses to trauma, and how they are just part of us, mostly outside of our control, especially as children. Lauren’s freeze response wasn’t just a one-time event either, it went on for years, and was tied to thinking that all of it was her own fault.
If this sound familiar, that’s because it is really common. We just don’t talk about it. We don’t talk about sexual abuse at all, and if we do, this kind of response is usually met with some nasty comments about why we waited to say anything. Those comments simply communicate that the person saying them, knows nothing about the brain and trauma response.
Don’t be that person. Watch and learn a thing or two.
As many of you know, back in September I shut down the Survivors Network as it existed, due to some issues with the level of privacy and anonymity of the Buddypress infrastructure. As I mentioned then the Facebook page has been getting quite popular, and there had been some interaction going on there as well,…
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hmmmm…sounds like something to look into.
Thanks for the heads up! =)
Wanna send me my darn password and user name again? Normally I don’t have issues with this…but for some reason…………………