Cynthia Cox was kind enough to let me know that her new novel about surviving childhood sexual abuse, The I in Me, will be available for free starting Aug. 1. You can go check out her website for more information.
Since I’ll be traveling at the time, if you get a copy and want to let us know what you think, feel free to leave a comment!
“Children learn what they live and that was their life.” The struggle is real. Children absolutely learn what they see everyday, and if what they see everyday is mistreatment, abuse, chaos, etc. how can we expect them to learn anything other than the world is dangerous, this goes on everywhere, and I must have done…
What to Watch Out for And How You Can Help College Kids With Depression Symptoms A male adult survivor of child sexual abuse speaks out: How silencing feeds the cycle of trauma – Firstpost When Was The Last Time You Had Fun? Because it’s good for our mental health to simply do something because it’s…
Therapists Spill: How Therapy is Different from Talking to a Friend tags: CA Children Try to Flee from Childhood Sexual Abuse, But Stay for Physical Abuse tags: CA Best of 2013: GoodTherapy.org’s Top 10 Websites for Abuse Survivors tags: CA Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Now Accepting Submissions for the May 2014 Edition of the Blog Against Child Abuse tags: CA ChildAbuse In Central New York, a community rallies against sexual abuse: ‘Grieve for that child’ tags: CA ChildAbuse PTSD and Memories of Abuse tags: CA ChildAbuse A Lifelong Journey tags: CA ChildAbuse Male rape in America: A new study reveals that…
This is a really good reminder, that when you have one person in a relationship dealing with a long term healing process, the other person needs support too. I especially like the reminder that the survivor benefits greatly from knowing that someone else is also looking after their partner as well. It is very important…
This book won the British 2007 Booker prize and having won an award, we can vouch for the dreamy quality of the writing even if we can’t attest to the degree of realism to which the overly large Irish family is depicted. From an abuse survival point of view this book, unlike the Kite Runner,…
