The movie Boys and Men Healing, which has been screening in various places, and gotten pretty rave reviews from the male survivor community, is now available on DVD. You can order it over on the Big Voice Pictures website.
If you’ve seen the movie, or get the DVD and watch it sometime soon, let us know what you think!
We need to stop believing that we will recognize abusers when we meet them, clearly no one recognized what was happening to hundreds of gymnasts even after some of them came forward. “Given the abuse perpetrated by famous directors, beloved coaches, trusted priests and respected politicians, etc., it may be time to tolerate the cognitive…
Casey calls out those of us who would say “love is love” and support our LGBTQ friends and family members without standing up and doing what we can to actually make this world safer for them. I’ll go one further. If we want to call ourselves mental health advocates and advocates for trauma survivors we need to do what we can to push for a world that is safe for everyone. We can’t heal when we don’t feel safe, and for too many people in this world, they have no reason to feel safe.
We need to advocate for a world that is safe for them too.
Penn State scandal: How what happened in State College forced me to confront my own abuse tags: CA Protecting Our Children: Clues to Sexual Predation tags: CA Child abuse: We’re making the problem worse tags: CA Boy thought abuse was “normal” tags: CA Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
It’s not necessarily about childhood abuse, but i found the story of Mackey Sasser, a catcher with the New York Mets who’s career ended after he simply couldn’t throw the ball any longer highly interesting. It wasn’t until much later in life that he saw a specialist in the physical effects of childhood trauma that…
Lenore’s story is sad and tragic, but her message is important. We lose so many survivors, men, and women, who just never find a way to share their pain and look for help. People who live without hope because they feel shame about something that was never their fault. I encourage you to read what she has to say about her hope in sharing her husband’s story. I also encourage you to consider how many survivors we lose in the same way who we don’t even know were abused as children because they never felt safe enough to tell anyone. I guarantee there are many more people like that than we would like to think about.
I never cease to be bewildered by how vile and evil some people are in this world. I never cease asking myself how someone’s internal makeup can be so deranged that they hurt a child when my own instinct is to protect them so fiercely. I never cease to be absolutely gutted that another human…
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I was lucky to see it at a screening at the Male Survivor conference in NYC. Kathy, the director, and three of the men that the film follows were there as well to speak about it. I think it is the best of the films on this specific topic. It does not avoid the harshest of truths when discussing these abuses and their effects…but through these courageous men, it manages to inspire and give hope. I already bought my DVD, and have watched it several more times.
Thanks for sharing your experience Chris!