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Sharing – Lifelong Imprints of Childhood
We hear stories about this all the time. If your parents constantly compare you to an older sibling who could do no wrong, you spend much of your adult life believing you are not enough. If you come from a family that didn’t express emotion, you find it hard to be close to someone emotionally as an adult, and so on.
You take those messages about what is expected from your surroundings and adjust your behaviors and beliefs to fit in with them. It can be very difficult, not impossible, to overcome that and relearn a different message.
If this seems familiar to you, I want you to take the next step and imagine what kind of messages a survivor of childhood abuse carries from their childhood.
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…
Sharing – Brown University researchers find what doesn’t kill you may not make you stronger after all
This is not good news for the mental health advocates who want us to believe that things “happen for a reason”, and that we grow from our pain. It’s really just not true. “In 2003, before the natural disasters, none of the studied Chileans displayed any signs of PTSD or depression. But, by 2011, 9.1%…
Sharing – What happens after you tell your story? That’s a story in itself
And if you feel strongly that you want to write a book, start a site like this, and hit social media and tell the world, make sure you are prepared for all of it. Once it’s out, you no longer control it.
Once you’re sure, though, tell your story for all the people who aren’t ready yet.
Links I’m Sharing (weekly)
Be aware of child abuse: Reports are down because of pandemic isolation How the U.S. Made it a Crime to Have Mental Illness Why do we consider vulnerability a weakness? Beyond the language of denial: Men talk mental health in Ghana Best Support is to Validate Concerns of Stressed-Out Friends Living With Chronic Illness, Pain,…
RT @SurvivorNetwork: If you missed it – : Male Abuse Awareness Week is Coming Soon http://t.co/ecAyePfmLm
RT @SurvivorNetwork: If you missed it – : Male Abuse Awareness Week is Coming Soon http://t.co/ecAyePfmLm
If you missed it – : Male Abuse Awareness Week is Coming Soon http://t.co/ecAyePfmLm
Male abuse awareness week is coming soon http://t.co/IihY2LusGj