Child Abuse Survivor Blog

  • Survivors Network Offline

    Due to some spam, and possible hacking attempts in the installation of the Survivors Network, I’ve taken the whole site offline. It may not be coming back. A big part of the reason for this happening was my inability to keep up with it, and keep the software installation up to date. Since there hasn’t…

  • A Personal Note

    Today is my 10th wedding anniversary. As many of you know, I’ve been living apart from my wife because of my job, though she will finally be joining me in South Carolina next month! To top it off, my wife is actually even further away than normal, as she is traveling in Greece as part…

  • Support Groups

    I got an email the other day from a fellow survivor who had tried to start a Meetup group of survivors in his area.  My name is Timothy and I’m a survivor of child abuse.  I’m contacting you from Dupage county IL.  About four months ago I started a support group and let it grow…

  • From Victim to Leader

    I was attending a legal tech conference last week, as part of my day job, and I was listening to a presentation about professional leadership and something the speaker said really struck me as applicable to survivors. She talked about how the best leaders are capable of leading themselves first. Meaning, they have the ability…

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    Dissociation, it’s Good For You!

    Late last week, and over the weekend, I was having an email discussion with an online acquaintance about child abuse, and dissociative disorders when she said something that sparked further conversation. She mentioned that “everyone dissociates and for good reasons, it’s just a matter of degrees”. That got me thinking about the coping skills we…