Three very different, famous, stories, and only one bottom line: Bottom line: Open communication and shared love in a family make a difference when bad things happen to a child. If children feel safe and loved in their family before bad things happen, they are more likely to share these experiences with their parents and…
This is why, if you can, its important to tell your story. Researchers, led by Emma McGinty, Ph.D., M.S., with Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, looked at the effectiveness of various communication strategies in reducing stigma and increasing public support for mental health policies. They found that communication strategies using personal…
I’ve said it before, there is no “type” of person who sexually abuses children, nor a “type” they are always safe with, and that includes adult females. Dr Sullivan suspects the reluctance of victims to report abuse by women is one possible reason for this discrepancy. “Our experience is that victims of female perpetrators tend to…
I love this description of therapy because this is what it really is – If it wasn’t for a close friend of mine that encouraged the idea of therapy. I would have never developed the courage and self-awareness to enter therapy. Therapy gave me the tools and techniques to live a more confident and emotionally…
This is, sadly, all too common, the inability to see people online who disagree with us as real, living people. We see it when we bully people we don’t agree with, or we use derogatory terms to describe someone we don’t really know anything about, or when we tell people to harm themselves. Social platforms…
This article makes some interesting points, which I’m going to oversimplify with this quote, so please go read the whole thing – “Positive thinking – “The past is the past and I just have to look forward”—only underscores the idea that there’s nothing to be done about the effects the past had on you. That’s…
