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    Sharing – Little Boys are Sexually Abused as much as Little Girls

    ByMikeM September 8, 2025September 8, 2025 Reading Time: 2 minutes

    I, for one, was sexually abused by an older boy. Not a stranger. Someone in my family. Many other men I know were abused by a family member, a member of the clergy, a coach, or some other trusted person known to their parents. I also went into my 20s planning to never tell anyone. I know many men go through most of their lives never planning to tell anyone. I was lucky to find other men who did talk about it, and helped me realize first that what happened to me was abuse and that someone would believe me if I spoke up. 

    I would argue that most men have never had that. Thus, they don’t show up in any statistics about sexual abuse. The sexual abuse of minors is chronically underreported and is likely to get worse as society continues to push victims to “move on” instead of speaking out. We need more spaces to discuss CSA, not fewer. 

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    Sharing – Surprising lessons from studies about post-Katrina trauma

    ByMikeM September 4, 2025September 3, 2025 Reading Time: 2 minutes

    Post-traumatic growth can happen. Healing from any trauma can happen. It occurs more frequently when the survivor has the financial means and social support to seek help. 

    This is not something we do on our own. It requires resources. It requires people in our lives to be there with us through it. Ignoring survivors’ current needs and assuming that they will eventually see growth is harmful. It might just be the missing thing, preventing growth. 

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    Sharing – They need therapy — but are turning to A.I. instead

    ByMikeM September 2, 2025September 1, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

    What would be beneficial is an adult conversation about establishing guardrails around AI tools to mitigate worst-case scenarios, while also planning ways to ensure that more people don’t have to rely on them for therapy because they have no other options.

    Read More Sharing – They need therapy — but are turning to A.I. insteadContinue

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    Sharing – Opinion: Mental health support saved my life. But what if I’d had to wait?

    ByMikeM August 28, 2025August 27, 2025 Reading Time: 2 minutes

    At any point in that journey, through all the ups and downs, not having support and access to a resource may have meant the difference between my healing and my not being here to type these words. 

    I think about that a lot, too. I think about how many unknown people have been lost who didn’t have that one connection or access to that one resource that could have helped them keep going. It’s a haunting thought. It’s a thought that motivates me to keep speaking and expect better from our society. 

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    Sharing – Hopelab Report Finds Online Communities a Lifeline to Rural Youth

    ByMikeM August 25, 2025October 27, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

    The same thing is true of adults, and this is why the lack of places where we can talk about difficult things without someone threatening to “ban” sites is also dangerous. We are cutting off the community that so many people desperately need. 

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    Sharing – You Don’t Need to Remember Everything to Heal From Everything

    ByMikeM August 20, 2025August 19, 2025 Reading Time: 2 minutes

    Thirty years later, I’ve done a lot of healing. I feel good about the life I’ve built and the people I’ve been building it with. I’ve found a way to want to continue living this life, and I’ve found ways to give back that fit into my life. What I don’t have is an exact timeline of childhood events that include all of the details of what happened to me.

    It turns out I didn’t need that to get here. I have enough to know what happened. I have enough that I can share my “story” as I remember it.

    That’s plenty.

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