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Sharing – The Hidden Cost of Having It All Together
ByMikeM June 25, 2025June 26, 2025 Reading Time: 2 minutes

I’m going to let you all in on my secret. I rarely feel like I have it all together. I know many of you are in the same boat. We go to work and pretend like we do, and maybe this is why we all feel like we have impostor syndrome, too, because we don’t always feel the same as the other people who always have it together.

I bet you can think of two or three people you interact with every week that you consider to have it all together. I’d also bet that if we could get inside their minds, they don’t feel like they do, just like the rest of us.

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Sharing – What is the halo effect and why does it matter?
ByMikeM June 24, 2025June 24, 2025 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Assuming that we know abusers when we see them is a dangerous game. Abusers get away with their behavior because they know how to mix in society, how to charm, and how to influence people to believe them. Victims often don’t have that going for them and are less likely to get the benefit of the doubt. Until we understand our biased thinking, we will continue to make this mistake, and. victims of abuse will be unlikely to be believed.

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Sharing – Invest in childhood
ByMikeM June 21, 2025June 20, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

We know that kids who can access mental health support during traumatic childhoods fare significantly better in every aspect than kids who are unable to do so. If we want to do something about not only the youth mental health crisis, but also future adult mental and physical health issues, one of the best things we could do is invest in support systems for children.

But, we don’t. We have never made the kind of commitment that is necessary, and now we are cutting the meager programs that do exist.

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Sharing – I was a child abuse detective – here are 5 things I want you to know
ByMikeM June 17, 2025June 17, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

Because if they don’t learn it from you, they will hear about it from these sources. Is that where you want your kids to learn about sex? If you wait too long, you’re not protecting their innocence as much as you are creating an opening for someone else to teach them a worse version.

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Sharing – How to Really Make America Great: By Confronting the Forbidden Issues
ByMikeM June 14, 2025June 14, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

Again, I’ll say it. You can’t solve the problems that exist and create risks for traumatized children when you don’t acknowledge the trauma. How can someone dealing with discrimination, hate, poverty, etc., get assistance when we won’t recognize that those things exist?

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Sharing – Current mental health support systems often fail to meet men’s needs.
ByMikeM June 12, 2025June 11, 2025 Reading Time: 2 minutes

In the mental health field, I would agree with the experts quoted in the article. We treat mental health and trauma recovery based on the symptoms shown most often by women, because it is most often women who are seeking help. We define the symptoms based on what we see in those women, which are not the symptoms that every woman would have, let alone others. Someone who is abusing a substance, dealing with anger, taking risks, etc., isn’t typically what we consider “depressed,” but that might be the reality.

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