Sharing – Vulnerable adolescents face sharp drop in mental health service access
We are failing to protect kids from trauma, and them failing to provide proper resources to assist them after that trauma. There’s no nice way to put this failure.
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Sharing – When the Alarm Won’t Stop Ringing
The point, however, is that having intrusive thoughts, anxious thoughts, is something we can talk about, even make jokes about. It happens. We can’t always control what messages our brains want to send us about what we should be afraid of. We control which ones we react to. We control knowing the difference between a realistic fear and an intrusive one.
Mostly, I feel like if we all admitted to having them, maybe it wouldn’t be something to freak out about when someone else has one.
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Shared Links (bi-weekly) Sept.6, 2026
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Sharing – Why Trauma Returns Through Sex
Because of this stigma, articles like the one above become rare, and important reads. The stories shared in it might feel familiar to you as you read them, or they may help you understand what many survivors of sexual abuse deal with in thier lives. When you’ve been sexually abused, sex and arousal can become very complicated things. That complication shouldn’t come with judgement, but we know that it too often does. The judgement doesn’t help anyone heal, in fact, it likely does even more harm.
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Sharing – Why Trauma Survivors Often Don’t Ask for Help Until It’s Almost Too Late
It’s one thing to encourage trauma survivors to ask for help. It’s quite another to make sure the help available to them won’t make things worse. There are too many unsafe people in this world who would mock, dismiss, or retraumatize survivors. So long as those experiences keep repeating themselves, there is no wonder that survivors don’t ask for help until it’s the absolute last resort. That’s exactly what happened to me, too. I didn’t ask for help; I just kept getting worse until I had no choice but to get help.
That shouldn’t have been necessary.
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Shared Links (bi-weekly) Aug. 23, 2026
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