As a survivor, there are a couple of things I honestly believe to be true of all survivors, and how we all decide to deal with our stories. One, is that every single survivor has the right to tell, or not tell, their story in any way they want. Some do it anonymously, some don’t…
A lot of trauma survivors, talk about how they miss who they used to be. They miss their ‘pre-trauma’ self/identity. For many of us, however, who were severely abused from a very young age, we don’t have a ‘pre-trauma’ identity. This is something people will not fully comprehend, unless they have personally endured this. Part…
“The thing about getting out there though is that it requires you to be your own person, it requires you to rely on yourself for your needs which is a skill that’s valuable for anyone but especially valuable for people with mental illness.” This is something I have learned over the years as I have…
“You may be a survivor of child sexual abuse who is now in your late thirties, forties, fifties or beyond, and you may be finding that your feelings around what you experienced are worse than they have ever been, or at any rate worse that they’ve been for a long time. You may be confused as to why this…
“According to some headlines on the Autism Speaks site, much of New York will light up in blue during the month in support. Red Bull Arena, Macy’s and Bloomingdales, and even the NYC sanitation trucks will aid in bringing awareness to this issue. In a show of solidarity, the Great Buddha of Hyogo in Kobe,…
“Even though Barbra didn’t share details of her illness with me, I always vaguely intuited something was going on. But I avoided directly engaging with her about her struggles because it was just easier to ignore something I didn’t understand. I wanted to maintain the status quo of our light-hearted friendship.” You may not always…
