YoMonkey posted a survey in the forums, hoping that some folks will take the time to help her with a study she is conducting to help high school kids understand the effects of child abuse. You can send her an email from that post with your answers, or, I suppose, you could just answer them there in your own post, whichever you’re more comfortable with. I haven’t answered them myself yet, but I’ll try to soon!
There was an excellent post over at Lifehack today called Living Scared, which talked at length about the how and why of fear, and how living with too much fear can be detrimental to our own happiness. I won’t go into much detail, go read it for yourself. The one thing I will say is…
Over on Theo Fleury’s website, there is a guest post today by Bob Spensley about having compassion for offenders, whether they be criminals, political oppresors, kidnappers or sexual predator. Granted, this is not the most popular way to approach those who commit these acts, but I think Bob makes one good point, whether you agree…
Pin Which brings us to Daisy. She did not get her justice from the court system, quite the opposite. But, she did something else that many assume is a sign of “being healed”, she found her voice. She told her story, she had a movie made where she could speak her truth to the whole world. Surely, that is healed, right?
As we now know, that probably wasn’t the case. I assume that many people who watched that documentary went on to become fans of Daisy, admiring her for having the courage to tell her story, happy for her that she was able to overcome, but that had nothing to do with the reality of what surviving actually is.
The coincidence that I spoke of came this morning, when I popped over to Twitter during a quick coffee break, and saw Rachel Denhollander, another survivor who’s made an appearance in a documentary, Athlete A, on her involvement with the Larry Nasser case, talking about this article:
Daisy Coleman’s Death Lays Bare the Myth of ‘Surviving
As I wrote yesterday on my tech blog, I’m seriously feeling the need to work on some techie projects. I think I just need the outlet and the challenge to balance the non-challenges I have with work right now. Also, like I did on that site, I wanted to give you all the opportunity to…
It’s only a small site with only a handful of readers, but I still thought “heck, why not?” when it came to installing the Amber Alert Ticker that you see at the top of the main page. It took all of 2 minutes and if someone sees something on this site and has some information…
Got this email today and wanted to pass it along, if you’re interested go ahead and contact Christina at ctorres at healthyplace.com: My name is Christina and I?m a producer with the HealthyPlace TV Show, an online mental health tv show that airs live over the HealthyPlace.com website. http://www.healthyplace.com/mental-health-tv-show/ Our next Tuesday night show (June…
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hmmmm…sounds like something to look into.
Thanks for the heads up! =)
Wanna send me my darn password and user name again? Normally I don’t have issues with this…but for some reason…………………