I was slightly bemused when I saw that Tracie had made change the theme of September’s Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse. Why, you ask? Because I had been thinking quite a bit about the topic of late. It’s been almost 6 months since I packed what I could fit in my car, and drove from…
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…
I attended a legal tech conference last week as part of my day job, and I listened to a presentation on professional leadership where something the speaker said really struck me as applicable to survivors. She said the best leaders can lead themselves first. Meaning, they can see themselves as the sum of their life…
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…
Just wondering if there are any survivors using Google Plus? I was thinking of creating a survivor circle on there and using it to share articles or other interesting things that I either don’t take the time to write up as a blog post. Mostly I want to see if it’s easier to use that…
Recently, I came across an article about how common happiness boosters might actually make you feel worse, and as I read it, I realized that, really, even though some of these can be mood boosters or stress relievers, for some people, they simply aren’t. It’s obvious from the article that the author is very aware of what works…
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