Why the pressure to be perfect is impacting our mental heal Are Online Friends Better than No Friends at All Mental Health is not a choice, compassion is! Understanding How Trauma Affects Children Isabella Mori – Self-Stigma: It Can Happen To Anyone What Parents Need to Know about Sexual Grooming Imagining a future after trauma…
The article isn’t necessarily about abuse survivors, or trauma survivors, but I think the skills are important, and we should pay special attention to this paragraph: “It feels good to think that everything that’s good that happens in your life happens to you because you’re this good, amazing person. But the price you pay for…
Amanda describes one of the seemingly silly things that she has to do to feel safe in the article: For years, I didn’t understand my need to sit in a booth or corner bench. I felt I needed to make excuses. Now I understand it as just one of the many symptoms of growing up…
4 Lessons In Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Breaking the Stigma Together with Best-in-Class Resources Oregon Allowing Students to Take ‘Mental Health Days’ Could Benefit Them in College, Experts Say Give Your Child the Tools to Recognize Sexual Abuse Campaigner for child sexual abuse victims to be honoured The Ticking Time Bomb of Unprocessed Trauma Employers…
I have talked many times about how we can make kids less of a target for abusers when they have open, caring, communication with parents. But, even with that in place, traumatic events can still happen. Well, it turns out having that parent helps kids deal better with that too: “Worse, the negative effect on…
I really like the way Katie has tried to simplify what goes on in our brains, and how someone with a traumatic childhood may have some difficulty in how the brain processes threats. Or, in her words: “This is why when we encounter the everyday fuzz that either consciously or unconsciously reminds us of our…
