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.
I’ll be keeping an eye on the news about Ivan, and hoping for the best.
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’ve noticed a disturbing trend in the survivor community recently, and finally decided to say something about it after a recent post on Facebook this past weekend. The trend is of spreading “news” from clearly fake news websites in order to spread awareness about child abuse. In this case, I’m sure many of you saw,…
Pin We are much more likely to watch Netflix instead of spending time in a third place. We are a culture that is seeing less and less interest in churches, club memberships, leagues, etc., and one that provides fewer clubs, small events, and other spaces for people to hang out in. That has hurt us socially. Media has made us much more afraid of each other, pushing us away from forming communities. (Fox specializes in terrifying their own audience and telling them to keep coming back to learn all the things they should be scared of, and others have followed in their footsteps.)They have helped us become less and less interested in creating third places. If we do gather, it’s usually for some specific purpose or event, not something we do on an ongoing basis. So, we never form the bonds that give us a sense of belonging.
We are lonely. That loneliness is causing immense harm. We don’t belong anywhere, but we should belong and try to find ways to create a space where people can belong.
I saw this morning over at Pysch Central that Thursday, Oct. 5th is National Depression Screening Day. Follow the link and read more about it, and find out who should seriously consider being screened, whether on-line or in person. As a personal note, this is incredibly important. Depression is a serious problem, it can be…
This month’s theme is “birthdays”, and the carnival just keeps on growing. Looks like yet another large collection of posts! Head over to Issue Knitting and check for yourself! It should give us plenty to read for the weekend.
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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..