“Talking to your child about sexual abuse is uncomfortable. We want to empower them, not make them fearful of people.”
Open lines of communication between parents and kids go a long way here!
This seems important- “There is an important message we should be hearing from the research published by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse: leaders play a vital role in keeping children safe in their organisations. But this message isn’t getting the attention it deserves, from the media or organisational leaders. Instead,…
We’ve seen a lot about ACE scores, and how these childhood traumas can lead to great difficulty throughout our lives. Edward shares his story, not just of his high ACE score, but that he also overcame it. “Of course, odds are just odds, and ACES did not assess the positive people and events that can…
The rest of the article talks about the detrimental impacts of less connection to the people in our lives, our communities, etc., and some ways to help build those back. Things like reaching out, doing more than doom, scrolling your social media feeds, leaving thoughtful comments, interacting with your friends and family, etc.
It’s worth a read. Connectivity is an essential part of maintaining our physical and mental health.
It’s not just that surviving a traumatic childhood prevents us from learning various things in childhood that we need to learn later in life to be successful. It’s also possible that our brains aren’t developing correctly: “In brain scans from the people who lived with high stress as children, Birn and Pollak could see a…
This is such an important caveat. Depression Support Groups are Helpful When They’re Good I attended a support group for abuse survivors for a short time, and it was a very bad experience for me. (I won’t get into details here, but mixing in one male survivor with a group of female survivors who had…
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