Quotes From Male Survivors
From the 1 in 6 website, quotes from guys who have arrived on the other side.
Because survivors need to know that healing is possible, and that they are not alone in getting there!
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Sharing – Trauma Stands Between Us and Healthy Communication
Our trauma taught us how to react during childhood in ways that are, in fact, not at all appropriate to the reality of adult life. Things that remind us of our abuse can set off a panic in us, causing us to do, and say, things that are not appropriate to the current situation, and people on the receiving end of that communication can have a difficult time understanding what has happened. Interactions between survivors can be rife with underlying messages and reactions that have nothing to do with the current situation because we are all bringing our own trauma into the conversation.
Reviews Elsewhere – The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in Healing Trauma
There are certain books that I’ve seen discussed in the survivor community so often that it can be easy to overlook them when talking about recommendations for someone starting out on their healing journey. Bessel van der Kolk’s book about healing from trauma, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in Healing Trauma, falls into that category.
Sharing – Memories of childhood trauma may shift depending on current relationships
Think of it this way, we don’t ask trauma survivors to try healing from their trauma when their current situation is unsafe. That would be silly. We get them into a safe situation first, before they can even begin to heal. The same goes here. Kids who are safe and feel secure in their parents’ love and support look forward beyond the trauma.Â
Kids who are unsafe and not secure in the love and support of parents relive their trauma on a daily basis. It’s no wonder they are slightly more likely to immediately think of it when surveyed.Â
Link – Why We Should Be Having More Meaningful Conversations
This is a pretty interesting study – The results? Mehl and his team found that the happiest person in the study had twice as many substantive conversations, and only one-third the amount of small talk, as the unhappiest person. Almost every other conversation the happiest person had—about 46 percent of the day’s conversations—were substantive. As…
Sharing – 3 Important Life Skills Nobody Ever Taught You
The article isn’t necessarily about abuse survivors, or trauma survivors, but I think the skills are important, and we should pay special attention to this paragraph: “It feels good to think that everything that’s good that happens in your life happens to you because you’re this good, amazing person. But the price you pay for…
Link – How do you heal from parents who hurt you?
These sound so familiar to me as a survivor, and someone who has heard the stories of many other survivors, and adult children of alcoholics. “As a therapist, I’ve heard hundreds of stories of children, now adults, who suffered terribly at the hands of the very people who were supposed to care for them. And…
RT @SurvivorNetwork: Quotes From Male Survivors: From the 1 in 6 website, quotes from guys who have arrived on the other side.
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RT @SurvivorNetwork: Quotes From Male Survivors: From the 1 in 6 website, quotes from guys who have arrived on the other side.
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