What parents should know about grooming — and what schools should do if they suspect it
Calm through coffee | ‘The act of breaking the stigma is everybody’s job’
How Connection Saves Lives and How Policymakers Need to Understand That
CHILDLINE ADVICE: No child should suffer abuse – here’s how you can help
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Members of the Compass House tell us how recovery from mental illness isn’t a myth. Always so happy to hear the voices out there reminding people that they are not alone, and that there is hope. Keep it up! http://ijpr.org/post/compass-radio-explores-recovery-mental-illness?utm_content=bufferc72a0&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer#stream/0
Lots of good information here, but none more so than recognizing why it’s so important to see childhood emotional abuse for what it is: “Unfortunately, because emotional abuse is often tolerated or because the abusive parents are very secretive in their abuse (hiding their true selves when in public), emotionally abused children will assume that…
I may not necessarily agree with everything on Dr. Zoe’s list, but I am on-board with the idea of knowing ahead of time what kinds of activities, people, etc. will help take care of your mental health when you need it. You and I may not have a current mental health diagnosis right now, but we all are having low days, struggle days. Doing something about those, might just help us avoid spiraling into a situation where we do end up with something more serious.
As I mentioned, in the workplace this is true. Very few people are going to feel safe talking about their own struggles if the leaders in the company never open up about their own at some level. But, it’s also true in our relationships as well.
How many of us wish the people in our lives, spouses, kids, siblings, friends and loved ones, would feel comfortable talking to us about their struggles, yet we never share our own? How would they know that you are a safe person to talk to if you appear to never have any struggles?
Let me give you a prime example from my own life. As many of you know, I worked from home before the pandemic started, and continued to do so all the way through 2020. It had very little impact beyond some lack of socializing, on my life, and so when I compared that to what many others were going through in 2020, I didn’t really want to complain about the things I was struggling with. Most people I did talk to, didn’t really talk about their own struggles either. Finally, however, when I wrote a post about not being OK right now, and shared it across my social media profiles, including LinkedIn, I got notes and messages from a ton of people, some who I haven’t even been in touch with in awhile, telling me about their struggles as well.
I attribute that to two things. One, I know a lot of amazing people who see someone struggling and immediately set out to make sure I knew I wasn’t alone, and two, by sharing my own difficulties, I also provided them a safe place to share their own struggles.
Isn’t that what it’s really all about?
So, what are you struggling with that you have been hiding? What good is hiding doing for you?
The Saturday 30th June edition of The Guardian has a special feature on sexual abuse committed by police officers, which as usual for this newspaper focuses on women as the victims to the exclusion of the minimum 16 recorded offences against children in their own data. You’ll find the report here and when clicking “download the…
