Launching Something New
I just went live with another blog on the site, Survivors News and Reviews. The idea is for this to be more of a group blog, but I’ll let the welcome message over there speak for itself.
Let me know what you think!
I just went live with another blog on the site, Survivors News and Reviews. The idea is for this to be more of a group blog, but I’ll let the welcome message over there speak for itself.
Let me know what you think!
As I pondered the theme for this month’s Carnival Against Child Abuse of renewal, or re-birth, I kept coming back to the same thought. Namely, that when we make a turn into a different direction in our lives, whether that be something as simple as giving up smoking, or making the very first steps into…
Pin Each year, around the Thanksgiving Holiday in the US, I try and write something about thankfulness and remind survivors that no matter what, we all have something to be thankful for, even if it’s just that we are still here, surviving, with hope for the future. This year, however, I’ve been struggling with the idea,…
I’ve decided to annouce now, despite the fact that the child abuse stuff has not been redesigned and moved over just yet, that 50% of all of my affiliate link $$ will be going to prevent child abuse. You can read more about it over there, and see the actual links. Affiliate links on this…
Pin As I said, that’s the good news. It wasn’t your fault. You didn’t ask to be abused any more than a woman asks to be sexually harassed on the street or a minority asks to be discriminated against, and there wasn’t any action you took to cause it. The decision to abuse was 100% on the abuser.Â
I also understand that this is bad news. Some people decide to hurt others based on their desires and ideas. There is no other reason and no promise that it will be just. It isn’t easy to let go of that ideal when it’s been drilled into us from an early age. Letting go means a complete reinterpretation of the world and our place in it. It’s hard work to figure out how to live our lives if something we’ve clung to since childhood isn’t true.Â
Marj, from the Survivors Can Thrive blog, left a comment and let me know about a new project she has started called Silence the Shame, which she describes as a secret-sharing space. I think it’s an interesting idea, creating a place for anyone to share their secrets and get support. Check it out for yourself.
Thanks to an email from the author, I learned about a new survivor blog today called Welcome to my Nightmare. Another addition to the community!
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