What Rebekah is writing about isn’t finding the meaning that would define why we were abused. That’s toxic. What she is writing about is finding what it means to live with childhood trauma.
The question we often ask ourselves about being abused is the simplest one to answer, but we’ve gotten it twisted.
Why was I abused? Because someone else decided to abuse me.
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The Act of Reaching Out– “Call them instead. Reaching out needn’t be a one-way street.”
Financial crises damage people’s mental health – our global review shows who is worst affected– Layoffs, poverty, medical debt, etc. are risks that aren’t solved with exercise.
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It’s all forward-looking. It celebrates how far I’ve come without constantly constantly reminding myself of what I haven’t done. In Todd’s words, it allows me to simply be human, like every other adult. In the end, isn’t that what we all want, to not see ourselves as the freak abuse survivor, but as an adult like other adults? With strengths and weaknesses, with quirks, and with success alongside failures?
We need to let ourselves be human and create a life where we can feel safe to be human.
Loneliness in adulthood tied to accelerated brain aging, new research reveals
Hardest Parts of Bipolar Disorder– I don’t talk about Bipolar often, because I don’t have Bipolar, and I’d rather link to people with lived experience, like this.
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