Shared Links (weekly) Jan. 18, 2026
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“When I thought about my childhood, I often told myself, “That’s not was that was.” I always had an excuse. But I still kept much of my past a secret. When I talked to my friends I pretended that we were the average family with average interactions. Yet all those feelings of helplessness, terror, disgust,…
(ed note- This is a guest post by Lindy that also appears on her own blog. It contains some religious messages along with her genuine story of seeing the movie. If you are offended by that, well, you’ve been warned. As you know, this site welcomes all survivors, regardless of religious faith, or lack of…
This isn’t new information for regular readers around here, what April says in the article below is a problem that just keeps getting worse. “April Foreman, an executive committee member of the board of directors at the American Association of Suicidology and a suicide prevention coordinator at the VA Health System in Baton Rouge, La.,…
In the interest of sharing book reviews when I couldn’t possibly read all the available books on the topics of child abuse and depression, I’m always on the lookout for other sites doing reviews, so that I can point folks to those reviews as well. Here’s a review of The Enemy Between My Legs by…
This TED talk by Debra Jarvis is about being a cancer survivor, but I think the ideas presented have a lot to offer for abuse survivors as well. Sometimes it’s easier to stay a “survivor”, and allow that to be an excuse for our behavior, or to allow other people to define what being a…