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
The Daily Mail published and updated its view on the mistaken identification of the wrong politician in the North Wales child abuse scandal last Friday, updating it on Monday 12th November. That article is here. This first article from last week was not the hatchet job on Stephen Messham implied by one of the Independent on Sunday’s articles linked…
If Mindfulness is something that helps you, great. If it doesn’t, don’t beat yourself up over that fact, or continue a practice that is actually causing harm. That makes no sense at all. Just accept that it’s not for you, and hopefully, the people around us who are pushing it as the cure-all, especially the ones trying to sell it to you, can learn to accept that too.
What has your experience with it been? What other “recommended” tools have not worked for you? How did you handle the folks who continue to tell you it would?
Cognitive dissonance is real, and we see the results of it every day. But, if we want to heal from child abuse, we have to deal with it: One challenge of recovery from childhood abuse lies in this cognitive dissonance between what an abused child comes to believe as true and the truth of the…
No news has emerged about England’s stalled government-level abuse enquiry due to two Chairs having to step down last year. Now a third has been appointed from New Zealand as anyone English was too likely to have links to the late Leon Brittain and not be seen as impartial. The new appointment has happened within…
Online groomers rarely pose as children and can succeed in persuading a child to meet in less than half an hour, according to researchers probing the way in which sexual predators target victims online. Clearly, we aren’t doing enough to teach kids about online safety if this is true. This information came from a UK…
The post below is about shame, and Carolyn does a good job in describing what it is like to live with shame. It also, very much, sounds like a lot of abuse survivors who I meet online and in real life: It’s this generalised, endemic sense that I’m not wanted in this world, that…
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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!
RT @SurvivorNetwork: NSPCC Launches Now I Know Campaign: In the UK, the children’s charity NSPCC has launched a new campaign aimed at t… …