What I’m Sharing for Survivors (weekly)
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Sharing – Boundaries: Your Secret Weapon For A Stronger, Happier, And Healthier Mind
I talk about boundaries often. I know a few other folks in the survivor community who also talk about them often. It’s not a coincidence. Learning about healthy boundaries and how to keep them is a vital part of healing.
Study Shows That Limiting Your Life to Only “Positive” Friends May Be Hurting You
As it turns out, tuning out people who might need some compassion is simply an act of isolation, and isolation is almost never good for our own mental health. By cutting out the people who don’t always offer up those positive vibes, we wind up disconnected and lonely. Which, of course, we can’t share with the people left around us, because we are all living in the nothing negative bubble, so you are now living a very isolated life, which leads to much MORE anxiety, stress, and depression.
Sharing – A Shortage Of Mental Health Treatment Beds Can Trap Kids In Crisis Inside ERs
We have to have serious discussions about mental health resources, for adults and kids. This isn’t even about stigma or awareness, this is a system with fundamental flaws, that creates this lack of available, and affordable, resources. This is a society that is unable, and unwilling, to provide basic care for too many of its own members. Is that the society we want to live in? I hope not, but as long as we continue down a path where the best plan we can come up for a teenager struggling with suicidal thoughts is 17 days on a gurney, and sedated, inside of an ER, we are not that society.
Sharing – When in Doubt, Show Up, by Connie Schultz
This article is about losing her brother to suicide, but I think this message speaks to all of the things we go through that cause people to not know what to say, depression, child abuse, sexual assault, etc. I am reminded of a text message from one of my former students, sent from hundreds of…
RT @SurvivorNetwork: What I’m Sharing for Survivors (weekly): Why We Don’t Keep Secrets In Our House {Child Abuse Prevention} tags: CA… …
RT @SurvivorNetwork: What I’m Sharing for Survivors (weekly): Why We Don’t Keep Secrets In Our House {Child Abuse Prevention} tags: CA… …
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