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Re-Launching the Survivors Network
As many of you know, back in September I shut down the Survivors Network as it existed, due to some issues with the level of privacy and anonymity of the Buddypress infrastructure. As I mentioned then the Facebook page has been getting quite popular, and there had been some interaction going on there as well,…
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It’s Who, not What, we Trust
One of the personal notes I wanted to share about the book review I posted last week, is that there was a quick blurb in the book about how Susan likes to bring in the significant other of someone she is seeing, especially when they are in therapy for a sexual-related trauma. She wants to…
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Trying to Make Sense
My wife recently returned from a trip to Israel. This weekend, over breakfast, she was telling me about meeting Eliezer Ayalon and getting to hear his story of surviving the Holocaust. The one point of the story that really struck me was that, upon his arrival in Israel, no one wanted to hear about his…
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A Survivor, and What Else?
I found myself identifying quite a bit with a recent post by Faith Allen, Risk of Identifying Too Strongly with Being a Child Abuse Survivor. Not necessarily because I have a fear any longer of leaving the online survivor community, I’ve always been loosely associated as opposed to an overly active member of it anyway….
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Taking Care of Myself vs. Asking for Help
I’ve realized something about myself this week. I’m not exactly proud of it either. It seems that I’ve spent so much time learning to take care of myself, that I have a hard time admitting when I might need some support from my friends. That’s not to say that I regret that I am capable…