This Week’s Links (weekly)
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When It All Falls Apart: Trauma’s Impact on Intimate Relationships
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How to Listen When Someone You Know Tells You They Were Raped – PolicyMic
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Sharing – The idea that many people grow following trauma may be a myth
Over the years of having this website, I’ve had many people suggest that my abusive childhood made me more compassionate and a kinder human being. Or, maybe it gave me a better sense of humor or made me more spiritual.
Or maybe it didn’t. No version of me wasn’t abused. If there had been a version of me that wasn’t abused, he could be more compassionate. He could be a complete narcissist. He could be funnier or kinder. He could be a selfish ass.
No one knows. That version of me is Schrodinger’s cat. It’s all the possibilities because the box can never be opened to see what’s inside.
Sharing – Aly Raisman Talks Healing from Triggering Senate Testimony
This makes complete sense, but I fear it’s something we don’t remember when it comes to our own healing. We kind of forget that there are ups and downs, and we also tend to forget just how much energy and effort is involved in talking about it anywhere, let alone in front of a Senate Committee and national audience, and how that’s going to impact us for a time.
What Aly, and the other gymnasts, did that day in the hearing is brave, but we’d do well to also recognize how much energy that took as well, and the need to recover from that energy expenditure, because we should also be applying that to ourselves, and our own healing.
Link – This Man Saved About 400 Suiciders By Asking Them One Question Only
This guy is awesome. He understands that the one thing he, or anyone, could do for someone in trouble is just be there. He doesn’t fix everything, just lets them know that they are not alone in the world. During half a century, he has saved many lives and even got an Australian Guardian Angel…
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