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Reviews Elsewhere – Playing Hurt: My Journey from Despair to Hope
For sports fans in the US, John Saunders is a familiar name from his years on ESPN. His memoir has been released posthumously, and little did I realize the connection between that and child abuse and mental health struggles, but this review from Mental Health America makes it clear that there is definitely a connection….
Sharing – Why Healing from Trauma Can Get Harder As We Age
As I’ve said before, we were too busy simply surviving the abuse to learn the things we were supposed to learn as children, so we often start out behind in various ways.
Of course, in order to learn those things we need to do the work as an adult, to first unlearn the things we learned, and then learn the things we didn’t learn to start with. This is, perhaps, one of the real tragedies of so many survivors not even telling anyone, let alone starting this work, for decades.
That’s so many more years of doing the things we need to unlearn, and undoing that is just going to be more difficult the longer this has been true for us. So, what can we do?
Sharing – What Not to Say to Your Grieving Friend
I’ve seen so many examples of people who felt the need to say something to a grieving spouse, child, etc., that they wind up saying something that makes everyone who hears it cringe. There are some good examples of what not to say in the article below, but maybe this sentence is the best thing to remember:
“In the end, the best thing to say when you don’t know what to say is just that. “I don’t know what to say, but I’m here for you.” “
Sharing – Reddit’s Partnership with Crisis Text Line
I don’t know how successful this partnership will be, but I applaud them for trying something new. Doing nothing is not going to be successful. If a redditor is flagged as struggling with serious self-harm or suicide, they will receive an immediate private message with various resources and a recommendation to text the key phrase…
Sharing – Why Everyone Is Listening to “Mental Health Playlists” This Year
Hmm, do you have a mental health playlist? After reading the article below I’m going to have to go see what Spotify thinks makes for a Wellness playlist for me looks like. It may not look exactly like the one in the article below, or what many other folks would put on their’s because well,…
