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I Started Healing When I Convinced Myself I was Safe Now, What About People Who Aren’t Safe?
ByMikeM July 27, 2023July 12, 2025 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Casey calls out those of us who would say “love is love” and support our LGBTQ friends and family members without standing up and doing what we can to actually make this world safer for them. I’ll go one further. If we want to call ourselves mental health advocates and advocates for trauma survivors we need to do what we can to push for a world that is safe for everyone. We can’t heal when we don’t feel safe, and for too many people in this world, they have no reason to feel safe.

We need to advocate for a world that is safe for them too.

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Being There for Someone Requires Communicating
ByMikeM July 19, 2023July 18, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

The bottom line? We can all play a role in enhancing mental health outcomes for ourselves and those around us. We change the world one solid relationship at a time, and we build those through effective communication.

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Sharing – New study shows the top healthcare issue in rural America is mental health and addiction
ByMikeM July 13, 2023July 13, 2023 Reading Time: 2 minutes

There have been some efforts to make health care more accessible in rural areas, but I’m not sure that we’ve done nearly as much when it comes to mental health and addiction treatment. I’ve read too many stories of people needing to travel 100 miles or more to see a therapist, or get a prescription for medication, let alone finding a rehab clinic with an opening. Throw in a system that too often forgets that they exist, or uses them as pawns in power grabs instead of trying to meet the needs of these communities, and it’s no wonder that many would be feeling helpless in the face of addiction and mental health issues.

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Sharing – Why Complex Trauma Survivors Can’t Just ‘Get Over It’
ByMikeM June 22, 2023June 22, 2023 Reading Time: 2 minutes

You don’t decide to get over that. It’s not impossible to heal from it but it’s going to require quite a bit more than just deciding to get over it. So maybe you’d do a lot more good supporting people through that process instead of demanding they get over it so you can feel more comfortable.

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ByMikeM June 4, 2023June 3, 2023 Reading Time: 1 minute
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Sharing – Everybody Deserves Empathy
ByMikeM May 25, 2023May 25, 2023 Reading Time: 1 minute

As Scarlett discusses, it’s easy to feel sympathy for the “good” people with mental health issues. That would be the folks who didn’t commit a crime, and who can act mostly in socially acceptable ways. The ones who have much messier situations often escape our empathy, especially if they happen to be homeless, or a member of an underrepresented group.

Mostly though, it’s just luck. Just as I’ve mentioned many times that I was privileged and lucky enough to be able to get help to learn how to deal with my trauma, I was also lucky enough to have only been homeless for a little while, and to have not had a violent or disruptive outburst that led to my being imprisoned or killed.

That luck doesn’t make me more worthy of empathy. It was just luck.

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