In the UK, the children’s charity NSPCC has launched a new campaign aimed at teaching children about abuse. The goal is to allow kids to “say now I know instead of I wish I had known”. More information is available in the news story, as well as on the NSPCC site
I’m not going to quote anything from this article, because it’s a complicated issue that doesn’t break down into sound bites very well. We all want the justice system to come down hard on anyone who is guilty of abusing a child, but proving that guilt is tricky when it requires, potentially, doing more harm…
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The key is to have some compassion for yourself, similar to the compassion you might have for someone else in a vulnerable situation. When you can do that, suddenly what the other person does isn’t as important, you’ve given yourself grace, and acceptance.
As childhood abuse survivors, of course, this is tricky. Self-compassion is not generally one of our strengths. How could it be? All our lives we’ve been told that bad things happen either to bad people, or for a reason, and we’ve had something horrible happen to us, so we must be broken in some way to have had that experience. Didn’t we all think that way at one point or another? How could we not?
And this is the core. Mental Health awareness is great, but the political will to solve some of the core issues that lead to increased mental health difficulty doesn’t exist. There is ample evidence that poverty, domestic abuse, bigotry, harassment, etc., lead to higher numbers of people struggling with their mental health, and we do nothing to prevent that.Â
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Watch for the 2014 “Turn Up The Volume” Tour announcement coming very soon. A Tour that will be Empowering Youth and Children by Empowering them to Speak Up and Speak Out.
Looking forward to it man! Good luck getting it going!
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