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Sharing – Allowing Survivors of Suicide Loss to Be Honest
As Brandy shares, processing grief can sometimes mean being angry, or feeling things about the death of a loved one that don’t always jive with how we’d want suicide reported, but these are not spokespeople, advocates, or reporters, they are people dealing with their own pain.
Maybe, if we want people to speak their truth, we need to give them the room to express it the way they feel it, not silence them in the interest of not hearing terms we don’t love.
This Week’s Links (weekly)
From 1in6: Knowing Your Offender, Navigating Your Healing Path tags: CA What About Me? | A Book for Men Helping Female Partners Deal with Childhood Sexual Abuse tags: CA PARENTING WITH PETE: Prevention of child abuse is everybody’s responsibility tags: CA Now Accepting Submissions for the April 2013 Edition of the Blog Against Child Abuse…
Cinderella Law Aims to Criminalize Emotional Abuse
That’s the news out of the UK this week, but it is not without it’s detractors. Frankly, I’m not exactly sure it shouldn’t have detractors. What I continue to fall back on is this quote in the first link. ‘We need a clear, concise and workable definition of child maltreatment — an alternative code that…
Reviews Elsewhere – The A-Z of Therapeutic Parenting by Sarah Naish
I found this review by Ali about Sarah’s book. It’s not necessarily for everyone, but I think if you’re a parent of a child who has been through trauma, whether you’ve adopted them as Suzy has, or your biological child has been through trauma, this book might come in handy.: As a mum of two…
What I’m Sharing for Survivors (weekly)
Common Things Parents Say to Their Kids about Therapy that Aren’t Helpful tags: CA Depression Trauma Survivors Have Symptoms Instead of Memories tags: CA ChildAbuse How Do We Stop Childhood Adversity from Becoming a Life Sentence. tags: CA ChildAbuse Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Sharing – 5 facts about child sex trafficking that will help you make a difference
This is a really helpful article from Thorn about child sex trafficking, and it contains a lot of good information about how to learn more, how you can help, how to make a report etc. What I also found interesting were these two points that might have been listed under what NOT to do: “Be…
