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Links I’m Sharing (weekly) – May 24, 2020
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Links I’m Sharing (weekly)
Why Asking For Help With Our Mental Health Isn’t A Sign Of Weakness. Suicide Rates Are the Highest They’ve Been Since WWII Boys and Sexual Abuse: The Untold Stories of Trauma How Writing About Mental Health Makes a Difference U.S. Youth Suicide Rate Reaches 20-Year High We are failing is so many ways when it…
Reviews Elsewhere – The Gap and the Gain by Dr. Benjamin Hardy
If this gap feeling describes where you are in your healing, turn your gaze around from looking at the goal and how far it may be to how much further along you are on that path than you were 1, 3, or 5 years ago.
You might be surprised by how far you’ve come in that time. You might even take a moment to feel proud of yourself.
Sharing – Resiliency: Strong & Broken At The Same Time
I see so many survivors stuck in a black/white perception. You’re either healed, or broken. You are strong and resilient, or you’re weak. You have a mental health problem, or you don’t.
When the truth is so much more complicated than all of that.
Sharing – The Importance of What Wasn’t Provided
The impact of what you weren’t given as a child can be just as real as the impacts of physical and sexual abuse. The struggle to navigate relationships and work, emotional immaturity, the lack of trust, the inability to be vulnerable, etc. Those are all things we should be learning throughout life, and they are all something we can learn throughout life. It sure would have been nice to have been able to start that process in childhood, though.
