This Week’s Links (weekly)
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On Marrying a Survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse – Shonna Milliken Humphrey – The Atlantic
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How to Find Someone to Talk to When You Can’t Afford Therapy
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Link – When It Felt Like I Had No One to Reach Out To, I Found Support In Online Communities
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Sharing – Aly Raisman Talks Healing from Triggering Senate Testimony
This makes complete sense, but I fear it’s something we don’t remember when it comes to our own healing. We kind of forget that there are ups and downs, and we also tend to forget just how much energy and effort is involved in talking about it anywhere, let alone in front of a Senate Committee and national audience, and how that’s going to impact us for a time.
What Aly, and the other gymnasts, did that day in the hearing is brave, but we’d do well to also recognize how much energy that took as well, and the need to recover from that energy expenditure, because we should also be applying that to ourselves, and our own healing.
