What I’m Sharing for Survivors (weekly)

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  • Sharing – Ideas to Self-Soothe When Trauma Makes You Feel Unloved

    There are two things I want you to think about here.

    1. Save the things that comfort you to look at, listen to, read, etc. Whatever works for you on a hard day to feel a bit better, save those. Encourage other people to do the same.

    2. Send more messages that people can save to make them feel less alone on a hard day. I love that the first response a friend had to hearing Monika saved messages like this, and might have lost them, was to send exactly that kind of message.

    So hey, send more of those. Remind people in your life that you appreciate them and care about them. In personal and professional relationships, just say thank you in meaningful ways. You never know who saves those messages to get them through the days they don’t feel good enough.

    I do. I bet people around you do too.

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    Links (weekly)

    My Friend Abuses His Wife! How Can I Help? (pt 2) tags: CA Why Children Don’t Tell About Sexual Abuse (Part 5: They’re Ashamed) tags: CA 12 Depression Busters for Men tags: CA Is it Sadness or Depression? 10 Questions to Ask Yourself tags: CA Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are…

  • Sharing – Boundaries for Healing Childhood Trauma

    The article below provides many more details, but similar to what I wrote earlier this week about taking a mental health day, boundaries are personal. How I decide to interact with my family may look very different from how other survivors do it. My boundaries have changed over the years. What they look like now is different from what they were when I was struggling more with my mental health as a younger man. I still have boundaries. I define them for myself every day.

    You should, too. You can decide where your boundaries are and when they can be adjusted. You decide what is safe for you. You decide who is harmful to you.

  • Link – 75% of young people reluctant to discuss their mental health

    The study was of young people, but would it be any different for other groups? “New research released by the mental health anti-stigma campaign, Time to Change, reveals that when asked, 75% of 16-24-year-olds in the East of England would tell friends and family they are ‘fine’, even if struggling with a mental health problem,…

  • Sharing – Parent who listens can help kids thrive despite trauma

    I have talked many times about how we can make kids less of a target for abusers when they have open, caring, communication with parents. But, even with that in place, traumatic events can still happen. Well, it turns out having that parent helps kids deal better with that too: “Worse, the negative effect on…

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