News and media reviews for the Child Abuse Survivor community, from fellow survivors
A Call For Greater Investment In Workplace Mental Health: Leaders From Facebook, YouTube, Best Buy, Verizon Media And More Weigh In
‘Mental health can affect everyone’
Self-Compassion As A Life Skill
The Best Psychology Podcasts of 2020
How to Stop Obsessing Over Your Mistakes
Eradicating the roots of childhood trauma
Photography as Therapy: How To Keep Your Mind Positively Occupied
Mom Who Lost Daughter Now a Mental Health Advocate… Read More
This was written on the website for the Domestic Violence hotline, but the tips are relevant to anyone who has been abused or gone through trauma. This, for example, is similar to many things I’ve written about child abuse too:
“Throughout this journey of healing from trauma and abuse, make sure that you are being compassionate towards yourself. A great deal of trauma survivors suffer from toxic shame and self-blame. It’s important that we are gentle towards ourselves during this journey, that we acknowledge that we are doing our very best, and that we ask ourselves every day, “What would be the most loving thing I can do for myself in this moment?” in any circumstance. There is no time limit to learning and healing, there is only the power of transforming our adversity into victory, one small step at a time.”
Check out the article below to read more about how, exactly, to be gentle towards ourselves while still taking those small steps.… Read More
Support group helps men who survived child sex abuse cope with the trauma
Real friends are our best antidepressants
Child abuse survivor fights for justice for all victims
A Glance at a Broken Mental Health System
A few of the best (and simplest) things I do for my mental health… Read More
Coping with Depression
We’re all in this together: Pandemic worsens depression, thoughts of suicide
‘Grave Sexual Abuse’: When the Word Rape Doesn’t Apply To Boys
Make Mental Health Your #1 Priority
How Therapy Helped Me Manage Trauma
Listen, Open Up, Connect: A Mental Health Expert’s Advice On Living Through A Crisis
Why You Can’t Think Your Way Out of Trauma
9 Steps to Healing Childhood Trauma as an Adult… Read More
This is a really helpful article from Thorn about child sex trafficking, and it contains a lot of good information about how to learn more, how you can help, how to make a report etc. What I also found interesting … Read More
