Just finshed installing a new comments system, moving everything over to my server instead of having to rely on YACCS any longer. Please let me know if there are any problems with it!
I did, in order to get the old comments transferred over, have to go and take out a lot of punctuation, and the date/time stamps, so older comments may look a little strange, but I think you get the general idea. 🙂
As you might notice over on the site, I finally found some time to switch over the blogroll to using the MT-Blogroll plugin. this should help me keep it more up to date. Obviously, given the size of the blogrolls now, I found that a large number of the blogs I had been linking to…
I have officially registered childabusesurvivor.net as the new home of this blog and the rest of my child abuse site that’s currently sitting over at Geocities. I got an offer for a free small hosting account for this site and really couldn’t refuse. I’d love to tell you who gave me the offer, but he…
I know I said things were getting back to normal and I’d have more to say, and then I let 5 days go by without saying anything. Shame on me. One of the things I have been thinking about, relative to this site is the donation I made to Prevent Child Abuse America last year….
Pin Somehow, even though this is from 2016, I hadn’t seen it until last night. It’s a TEDx talk by survivor, and advocate Lauren Book. (https://laurenskids.org)
In it. she shares her own story, and some words about going from victim, to advocate and how we can all advocate for children, but the part that really caught my attention was the beginning, and no not just because she uses an air horn. It’s the description of our responses to trauma, and how they are just part of us, mostly outside of our control, especially as children. Lauren’s freeze response wasn’t just a one-time event either, it went on for years, and was tied to thinking that all of it was her own fault.
If this sound familiar, that’s because it is really common. We just don’t talk about it. We don’t talk about sexual abuse at all, and if we do, this kind of response is usually met with some nasty comments about why we waited to say anything. Those comments simply communicate that the person saying them, knows nothing about the brain and trauma response.
Don’t be that person. Watch and learn a thing or two.
Every once in awhile, I need to revisit this topic and explain what this site, and the social network accounts that are tied to this site, are, and aren’t. While I try to generally be helpful, and allow for survivors to express themselves in the comments here, or over on the Facebook site, it’s recently…
Turns out my hosting company upgraded the Perl version on the server, and didn’t include all the modules that are required to run Movable Type, so that’s why things were basically wacky the last few days. I just finished installing the Perl modules into the MT installation itself, so I won’t have to rely on…
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