Links (weekly)
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Deborah Daro, Ph.D.: Preventing Child Abuse Requires Many Approaches, Not Just One
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Fleury speaks from the heart when discussing his abused past
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Link – What I’ve learned about child abuse: Advice from a child protection detective
So much of this. Straight from the “keyboard” of someone working in law enforcement. Read it all. https://www.zebracentre.ca/blog/2017/3/14/what-ive-learned-about-child-abuse-advice-from-a-child-protection-detective
Sharing – 20 therapists share things clients are ashamed to tell them that are actually common.
I appreciate the fact that this therapist recognizes how difficult it is to come forward with these things because it does take a lot to talk about it, especially the first time you tell someone.
At the same time I wonder how differently we might look at ourselves as we try to heal if we knew that we were the 4th or 5th person who talked to that one therapist about being sexually abused that day?
It’d be hard to feel alone, for one, right?
Link – I don’t have a ‘pre-trauma’ identity. So I’m developing my identity.
A lot of trauma survivors, talk about how they miss who they used to be. They miss their ‘pre-trauma’ self/identity. For many of us, however, who were severely abused from a very young age, we don’t have a ‘pre-trauma’ identity. This is something people will not fully comprehend, unless they have personally endured this. Part…
