Stop Child Rape says
Stop Child Rape says South African President
For the sake of all those children in South Africa, I hope they seriosuly crack down on what has become an epidemic there.
I’m currently sitting in O’Hare airport, waiting to board a flight that I once thought I would never be capable of getting on. I’m flying to Dublin, Ireland tonight, a place I’ve always wanted to visit. For years growing up I’ve always faced two obstacles to this trip. Obviously, finances being one, but also a…
Well it’s after midnight, so I guess that means this is now officially the 4th of July, and, my 34th birthday. It means that we get to wake up in the morning and prepare for the annual McBride family gathering at our house, which isn’t too bad. With that being an annual tradition, the 3rd…
Got another good tip for information about something I really don’t have much experience with myself, cultic ritual abuse. As always, passing it along for the benefit of those who may be interested. 3 of my friends have written a book about the sexual abuse and physical brutalization they suffered in a cult called The…
Gee has it really been a whole week since I posted anything here? That can only mean one thing, I’ve been living on the logical, analytical side non stop lately! Actually I have been. Between job hunting, holidays, working, and playing with a bunch of beta software in order to increase my skill set, I’ve…
Pin No, the easiest way to break up those circles, as any kid who threw rocks into the water can tell you, is to throw another rock and create new concentric circles starting from a different location.
In my metaphor about the trauma, I wonder what those other rocks could be. Mental health treatment? Care and support from family and friends? The elimination of stigma attached to trauma?
How about instead of ignoring the circles, we started throwing some more useful rocks and disrupting the cycles of trauma that we see repeated over and over again in those circles?
Maybe, just maybe, things are starting to get back to normal around here. After a couple of huge projects that had me working much more than my 40 hours per week, and taking up pretty much all of my mental energy, which ended just in time for the annual ILTA conference, where I was not…
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