Thanks for the supportive comments on that last post. After spending the weekend away from work and away from the stresses of searching for a new job, I feel much more in control and much less fearful. The fear and uncertainty will probably creep back, but now I know the best way to handle it is to just spend time with people who care about me, and enjoy each other’s company. Seems to work pretty well at keeping me balanced. 🙂
Should be an interesting topic for this month’s Carnival Against Child Abuse. I have to admit that this topic is one I don’t tend to write much about, as I don’t really know much about being a “child”, even as a kid I acted like an adult most of the time, and I don’t think…
The other day I was doing some reading about “confirmation bias”, our natural tendency to process information in ways that agree with what we already believe to be true, and ignoring information that challenges those beliefs. We see this frequently when it comes to politics, for example. People who lean one way or another on…
I enjoyed seeing Sarah’s “Thank You” post today. I loved what she had to say about how blogging has helped her.: Blogging. It’s broken the aloneness. I’ve kept silent for so long. Afraid to tell the awful things that happened. Afraid to speak. So I write. Here I can say it. I have said similar…
Pin We’ve already done hard things, but we don’t give ourselves credit for it. Typically, we do the opposite, blaming ourselves for the trauma or our mental health struggles, thus seeing ourselves as weak, the kind of people who can’t do hard things. That carries over into all aspects of our lives. We don’t take risks in jobs, relationships, and other areas because we don’t think we’re capable, and we don’t think we could survive failure.
Which is weird, given how much we have survived.
The Fifth Edition of the Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse is up over at Survivors can Thrive today. Once again it looks like there quite a bit of good writing going on, as usual. Next month’s edition will be hosted right here, so start thinking about submissions! Technorati tags: CarnivalAgainstChildAbuse
I saw this post over at Jewish Survivors of Sexual Violence Speak Out about the lasting effects of sexual abuse on boys as they grow into adulthood. It’s stuff we don’t hear often when we hear about boys being abused, but it’s information that needs to be out there. Men who are living with a…
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