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Philpott Arson Site To Be Demolished Following Sentencing
At the moment the main news story in the UK was the death of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. That pause gave us time to reflect on the news on Sunday 7th April that the home where six children died in a pre-planned fire in Derby, England is due to be demolished. The lantern lighting…
Holiday Edition of Blog Carnival
Marj has managed to piece together the December edition of the Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse just in time for the holidays. As always, it looks like there’s some god reading going on over there, including some posts from folks that I’ve been getting to know over at the Child Abuse Survivor Network, which has…
Sharing – Why We Should Care Less
No, not really, but what we should do is be sure to maintain healthy boundaries. The article below is about Compassion Fatigue. It’s real. I’ve known people who’ve reached that point, and I’ve watched people online reach that point, where they write and share about every new abuse case they see until they just disappear online because they have become overwhelmed.
Sharing – Healthy Boundaries for Adult Children of Toxic Parents
There is some good advice in the article about how to create, and maintain, healthy boundaries with a variety of toxic parent “types”, but I will always fall back on one fact of life as a survivor of childhood abuse, we came out of childhood with no idea of what a boundary is, let alone why we would create one. We were never given the opportunity to learn or practice this skill.
It’s OK if it takes us a minute to figure it out before we get it right.
