I got an email the other day from a fellow survivor who had tried to start a Meetup group of survivors in his area. Â My name is Timothy and I’m a survivor of child abuse. Â I’m contacting you from Dupage county IL. Â About four months ago I started a support group and let it grow…
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…
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 this article about how common happiness boosters might actually make you feel worse, and as I read it I came to realize 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…
I was pointed to this article about how the internet helps abuse survivors on Twitter a few days ago, and made a note to read it in further detail later. As I did read it, one section jumped out at me. ?The study also revealed some interesting facts and three main overriding reasons why online…
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