Links (weekly)
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9 Ways to Take Care of Yourself When You Have Depression
tags: CA
Caught By a Predator: Woman Speaks Out 10 Years After Her Abduction
tags: CA
Michael Reagan: What To Do When A Child Is Abused
tags: CA
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Is this THE reason? I don’t know about that, but the findings in this study correlate with what I’ve seen as an adult: “Yet according to a study published in Evolutionary Psychology, risky play–the kind where someone actually could get hurt–is good for kids. Researchers suggest that the fear kids experience when climbing at great…
What Gaby has to say about things you’d be better off not saying is good, but this last statement is 100% true –
“Most of the time, the only thing you have to do is be there. Most of the time, your only job is to be you, a fellow human being who is not afraid of engaging in a meaningful connection.”
…That’s the summing up of the views reported by the BBC over the weekend, which followed a press release noting that the most overstretched Child Sexual Abuse therapy services in a year had waiting lists of up to a year. There was also a marked rise in calls from Scottish children. The service is backed…
Following the conviction of Vanessa George, another female paedophile has confessed to 100 attacks on a number of children of both sexes. That report is here, and the paper has been careful not to dump the blame on any man she was in contact with as some kind of controller. In a different case a…
I have to admit, that even in a situation where I feel like I’m not in much danger of COVID-19 any longer, I’m also still feeling a ton of social anxiety. I have to decide what level of comfort I have with people, and how to communicate that to other people. I thought the tips offered in the article below make a lot of sense.