This Week’s Links (weekly)
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Male rape survivors tackle military assault in tough-guy culture
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20 Blogs with Caring Ways to Boost Your Child’s Self-Esteem
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Paedophiles: The Ordinary Monsters Hiding in Plain Sight
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Three Simple Ways to Build Self-Esteem
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Call for hotline serving grown-up victims of child abuse
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Male rape survivors tackle military assault in tough-guy culture
tags: CA
20 Blogs with Caring Ways to Boost Your Child’s Self-Esteem
tags: CA
A discussion about child abuse…
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Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
This TED talk by Debra Jarvis is about being a cancer survivor, but I think the ideas presented have a lot to offer for abuse survivors as well. Sometimes it’s easier to stay a “survivor”, and allow that to be an excuse for our behavior, or to allow other people to define what being a…
How can parents and other adults help children and teens living with undiagnosed, untreated PTSD find the help they need? An understanding of the symptoms of PTSD is a good place to start. Some of the symptoms in children and teens are the same as those for babies and toddlers. These include hypervigilance, emotional distress…
The article below is about social anxiety, but I have always believed that this lack of intrinsic worth is something that also makes kids vulnerable to being groomed and abused. Think about how well these paragraphs describe a typical survivor as a child: “In our culture, the measure of success and acceptability is often based…
Came upon this review from the Mental Health at Home blog, and something about it really hit home with me. I think in the survivor, and mental health, communities we have a real problem, and that problem has to do with how many people have this very strange way of defining “thinking positively”. So when…
It was one small victory at a time. Doing a homework assignment that was a month late because I hadn’t had energy to complete it. Going to class because I could finally get out of bed. Taking only one nap instead of three to make it through the day. Spending time with a friend instead…
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