If you won’t, someone else might talk to them about sexual abuse, and convince them there’s nothing wrong with it.
Who would you rather talk to your kids?
When worry is good: Talking to your child about sexual abuse
As the authors point out, your approach to self-care should be different depending on what is causing the burnout. If you’re just exhausted from a lack of sleep, overwork, etc. taking a day to rest, relax, and take care of yourself might be the best thing you can do for yourself. (Recognizing, as mentioned above, that if you’re overworked, fixing that falls on other people and the company) On the other hand, if you’re burned out from watching the news, and developing really a very cynical outlook of other people. spending a day isolating yourself from social connections even further, might not really be the best option. So, self care starts to look a little different depending on not only your own individual preferences, but also what it is that is causing these feelings of burnout.
Of course, the struggle here is knowing yourself, and your emotions.
Good for her!!!! Speaking out was a major turning point for Lilly. But not everyone around her thought she was doing the right thing. “Some [adults] told me that it wasn’t okay to talk about this because they think it’s very confronting.” But the results speak for themselves. Lilly has empowered countless survivors…
I’ve heard some variation of all of these myths over the years from folks I interact with online and off. And, it matters if you are unable to see them as false: “Often, these take the form of patients’ false beliefs about the trauma they experienced, who they are in relation to it, and what…
I found this section of the article below to be especially important for survivors to know. “The secret of child sexual abuse is especially shaming. It can make you feel like there is something seriously wrong with you; that you are inferior or worthless. You want to hide for fear of your secret being exposed….
Finding One’s Self – Recovery From Dissociation tags: CA Mom discovers child has been sexually abused. What now? tags: CA Transforming Trauma: From No Words To Your Words | Healing Together for Couples tags: CA Introducing Therapy Case Notes tags: CA Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
From Tracie: Now Accepting Submissions for the July 2012 Edition of the Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse tags: CA I Hate That I Am A “Survivor” tags: CA 5 Reasons People Don’t Report Child Abuse tags: CA Safeplace speaks out about male sexual abuse Good to see a place that offers help for male and…
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