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Independent on Sunday Articles on Wales and the BBC CSA Cases
Some of the best journalism of past weekend on the English and Welsh child abuse scandals ofthe past 40 years came from the Independent on Sunday. In addition to its own retrospective on the North Wales Jillings report (here in case the link didn’t appear in the previous story) they also profiled a family of…
Link – Is Your Childhood Blueprint Holding You Back?
Drew didn’t necessarily write this for abuse survivors, but I can’t help but feel like the advice here goes two, three, four fold for survivors: “It is worth acknowledging a lot of our old blueprint emerged as self-protection. Created during a time when being turned down by someone you had a crush on hurt to…
Get Some Help with a Free Mind Plan
It’s being offered by the NHS in the UK. Basically, the idea is simple, answer five quick questions about how you’re sleeping, stress, anxiety, etc. and they’ll put together some resources that might help.
Of course, they will also suggest getting some professional help, and more formal resources and those kinds of suggestions should not be taken lightly, but I took the survey, and the things they offered me were things like plans to physically move more, sleep aids, and a mental health app that might help with some of my issues.
Link – Child Abuse Won’t Stop Until We Stop Ignoring Its Victims
“When children run away from home or care, they are often running from something. Theirs are childhoods blighted by abuse, violence, family instability, and parental drug or alcohol misuse. For girls particularly, running away can be an attempt to escape sexual violence and abuse.” It’s definitely something those who work with runaways should stop to…
