Thanks to a post on NetBloke, I found this quote from Christopher Morley:
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.
For survivors you could rephrase that, but the idea is simple. Success in life is finding the freedom to make your own choices. Once you’ve done that it doesn’t matter what you do as much as it matters that you are the one choosing to do it.
The other day, while contemplating this site and the original purpose of it, I was struck by something profound, and sort of wonderful. Almost 12 years ago, I moved what had been a fledgling little website about being a survivor, and turned it into a blog. When I did that, I vowed to use this…
I saw this post in my RSS reader today, and the title jumped out at me as quite a different perspective, but as I clicked over and read the post, I found a lot to agree with. It reminds me a lot about the discussions of what would be different about me if the abuse…
According to a recent study, many of them do. About half, in fact agreed with this statement: “With just Bible study and prayer, ALONE, people with serious mental illness like depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia could overcome mental illness.” Now, I hesitate to quote from any study like this and use it to pass judgement…
Pin We can’t change society by getting more people mental health treatment, but we can’t treat individuals with anxiety and depression by only making societal change, which is likely to be a long process.
We need to do both.
A few weeks back, Patricia wrote about being an advocate, and being accused of being “stuck in victim mode” because she continued to talk about child abuse. It’s something that I’ve been thinking about too. Part of that thought process had to do with some cleaning up of old links that I’ve been doing on…
I ran across this article today, about a high school in Minnesota and how they have, for several years now, assigned students a senior research project on child abuse. I think this is great, and I think that the more people we can get talking, thinking, acknowledging and listening to survivors, the more tools we…
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Current Mood: Thanks to Mike for the inspirational quote: There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way – Christopher Morley I agree – it is *so* important to be able to do things for yourself. To make your own choices in…
Trouble is I havnt a clue how “to be able to spend your life in your own way” – If I did I think I would be dead – Dan