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Sharing – Human Trafficking Awareness Day
Today, Jan 11 is Human Trafficking Awareness Day, and given that I wanted to share these facts and a link to where you can get more information about how to identify possible trafficking. FACTS ABOUT HUMAN TRAFFICKING Source: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Every country in the world is affected by human trafficking,…
Link – I couldn’t save my child from being killed by an online predator
Breck Bednar, a 14-year-old boy who loved gaming, was groomed online and murdered in 2014. His mother, Lorin LaFave, was worried – would her pleas for help from police have been taken more seriously if he’d been a girl? It’s a legitimate question. We tend to think boys playing games online are just being boys,…
Sharing – Is social media as bad for mental health as we think? New study challenges screen time fears
You can see how it’s not simple. Mental health across a generation of individuals defies every attempt at a one-size-fits-all narrative, because we are not all one size. On the other hand, our brains want a simple narrative because what they want more than anything else is a reason to think that this won’t happen to our kids or us. So we run to simple solutions like bees to a hive. Sometimes that causes us to miss a lot of the details.Â
Let’s hope we continue to see improvements, but understand that there are a host of things we can and should be doing that don’t involve social media at all.Â
Sharing – How I Take Care: Therapist and Mental Wellness Advocate Jor-El Caraballo
It’s easy to think of self-care as something fun or relaxing that we take the time to do, just for ourselves. But, living a healthy life is so much more than that. Yes, we need the activities that fill our cups so that we have the energy to give in other areas of our lives. But, true self-care is also about doing the things that are hard, because they are better for us.
Sharing – When You Have a Lifelong Struggle With PTSD and Depression
It can be a struggle when so many of our friends and even professionals want to help us overcome abuse to “get back to” ourselves when there is no previous version of ourselves to use as a target. I don’t think this should be the goal anyway. The goal for any child abuse victim should not be to go back to being a younger version of themselves before the abuse, the goal should be to build a life after abuse. I didn’t find much healing in trying to remember my early childhood, but I found a ton of healing in having someone help me design the life I wanted to have as an adult and helping me feel worthy and capable of having that.
