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Sharing – The Courage to Be New
For abuse survivors, I’ve been on record talking about how so many of us are trying to somehow go back to the life timeline that we would have been on had the abuse not happened, and I’ve suggested that you can’t.
What you can be is something new, though. If you have the courage to try it.
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Detecting Sexual Grooming
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Your Mental Health Comes First.
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How Mental Illness Robbed Me of Empathy
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