Pin I sat down this week to do an interview with Ron Rapaport, host of the It’s a Wrap podcast. You can take a listen to it here, and also check out some of the other inspiring guests Ron has been interviewing since starting his podcast!
As always, if you are a podcast host and want to talk about child abuse survivors, mental health, or blogging about these things, feel free to reach out, Always happy to keep talking.
Now I know what you’re thinking, spending nearly 11 hours driving from Des Moines to Denver is hardly what you would consider a rest day, but I never claimed to be normal. You have to understand, as much as I enjoy meeting people and chatting with people at something like Gnomedex, I’m an introvert, to…
Pin As you know if you’ve spent much time around here, I am an advocate for self-care. We simply have to set some time aside to care for ourselves, to re-energize ourselves, and do what is necessary for our own mental health at times. We even, sometimes, need to stay away from people who would sabotage…
Got another good tip for information about something I really don’t have much experience with myself, cultic ritual abuse. As always, passing it along for the benefit of those who may be interested. 3 of my friends have written a book about the sexual abuse and physical brutalization they suffered in a cult called The…
Pin I’ve had some recent opportunities to sit down and have coffee with some people who have worked in child abuse prevention and treatment and do fundraising for those efforts. I’ve already been creating some blog posts out of things that came up during those conversations because they were that good. Still, there was one particular…
Pin I see this a lot in our communities as well. Again, empathy when dealing with an individual child, or supporting a loved one with a mental health struggle is great, but trying to feel the pain of all of the abuse survivors we are likely to come across in the world online, is a sure way to overwhelm yourself and burn out. I’ve seen it over and over again. Much like COVID-19, these issues are global, and huge. Trying to take on that much pain is an impossible task, and isn’t actually going to be helpful. Much better, is to develop compassion. As the guests on the show discuss, compassionate emotions push us to act. That act, helping others, does more good for them, but is also good for us. Instead of feeling overwhelmed, and shutting down, we are taking some small amount of control over the situation, and acting on it in a way to helps. We become the helpers that Mr. Rogers so famously talked about. Being a helper, makes us happier. It sets aside our own anxiety and struggle to do something, which is always a good way to move beyond those things.
So, the question may be not only what are you doing to take care of yourself during this time of great anxiety, but what are you doing to help others?
The May edition of the Carnival Against Child Abuse is up over at ImagineIf and even though it kind of snuck up on me, there appears to be lots of good reading material, once again! It’s hard to believe, but next month will be the carnival’s first birthday. Wow, the year has just flown by!…
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