Don’t forget, tomorrow is Stamp-out Hunger day here in the US. If you leave out non-perishable food items, the local letter carrier in more than 10,000 cities and towns will collect them for your local food banks. Read the link for more info.
Pin Because you never know who will read it, and see themselves in it: After suffering abuse by her national ski coach, Geneviève Simard read a book that changed her life. Before her abuser ever set foot in a courtroom, when she felt alone, Simard read a book, Why I Didn’t Say Anything. It was by Sheldon Kennedy, a professional…
Pin It was just a couple of years ago that I was writing about how the social media algorithms could be shaping what we think, by giving us more of anything that we interact with. For example, Facebook and Google know exactly how much time you spent looking at friends vacation photos and wishing you could…
I’ve been off-line for a couple of days, enjoying some vacation time with the wife. Tonight we’re in Boone, NC with free wi-fi so I’m spending just a little bit of time getting caught up on some things. One of those things is pointing out that the October Edition of the Carnival Against Child Abuse…
It looks like For Better or Worse , the comic, is bringing sexual assault to the funny pages. While it doesn’t involve a minor, it does involve the sexual advances on a girlfriends’ much younger daughter. That’s all too common, and probably all too familiar to folks who have dealt with childhood sexual trauma in…
Pin I saw this tweet yesterday shared by a few folks, and I was curious to find out what was going on: Yesterday, I found out that someone I followed and supported on social media has been using their platforms in an incredibly inappropriate way. They have posed as a mental health advocate to connect with…
Marj isn’t doing a full blog carnival against child abuse this month, a nod to the craziness that is the holidays for most of us, but she is going to be putting together a collection of Holiday Survival Tips for Survivors. If you have written some tips be sure to go over and let her…
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i was sexually and emotionally and physically abused by my dad. it started when i was 5 or 6 and i am turning 17 this july, right now i am tring to put my father in prison, but it is not work. i just want all the pain to go away and all the tears to stop falling. my biggest and only fear is that he wont get put in prison and he will do this to some other child and i wont be able to help that child and then they will have to go through all the bullshit and wont ever have a good normal life. how can i help and how can i make it all go away forever?????
i heard this site was very good. and i hope it can help me
im sexual abused by my dad every day im 16 he
fist put it all the way in when i was 5 i want to die..