It’s bad, and it’s getting worse. When will we realize how much this contributes to many of the other societal problems that we have with addiction and suicide and turn this around? The survey spanned eight years and involved more than 200,000 people living in the US aged between 18 and 64. It concluded that…
April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month, and I thought it would be worthwhile to review the scope of the problem we are trying to prevent. Child physical abuse exists in all corners of the country and affects children of all ages, ethnicities, and socioeconomic groups. Check the statistics. Child abuse happens everywhere, it’s not…
This is something we don’t take seriously enough. We seem to do the opposite, admiring the parents who are overstressed, overworked, over-everything, instead of the ones who take care of themselves. All this month in our HRI blogs, we’re looking at protective factors against child abuse. At first glance, it may seem counter-intuitive that self-care…
Good for her!!!! Speaking out was a major turning point for Lilly. But not everyone around her thought she was doing the right thing. “Some [adults] told me that it wasn’t okay to talk about this because they think it’s very confronting.” But the results speak for themselves. Lilly has empowered countless survivors…
Some of these things are so common that I think many of us probably say and hear them without even thinking about how they would sound to someone who is struggling with a mental health issue, going to therapy, or taking medication. We should think about that more often, because remember, statistically speaking, there are…
Again, this hit home for me as I go through some major changes of my own, but I know that change is something that many survivors struggle with. Change is going to happen, no matter how hard we fight it, but we can learn to cope with it. “It is never easy to go through…
