New survivor blog
Thanks to an email from the author, I learned about a new survivor blog today called Welcome to my Nightmare. Another addition to the community!
Sorry, for those of you who have a TypeKey account, I didn’t add the code to actually allow you to sign in using your Typekey registration and leave comments. Ooops. Hopefully it’s working now! OK, so it isn’t working. The Typekey site tells me that this site hasn’t turned the feature on, when, obviously, I…
If you’re seeing this, then you have gotten the updated DNS pointing you to the new server(s). I’ve moved all of my sites to a new place, and am looking forward to the increased abilitites with this set-up. Of course, finding the time to implement some of my ideas may be another thing entirely..:)
Image via Wikipedia There’s some research out now suggesting that it might: The researchers found support for deeper self-disclosure from bloggers resulting in a range of better social connections. These included things such as a sense of greater social integration, which is how connected we feel to society and our own community of friends and…
Pin As we spend more time online these days, scrolling away on social media, commenting, and sharing as our way of communicating with the world, a number of things are happening. One of them is that, as in the real world, we become the people we surround ourselves with. It’s not like we one day decided…
This is not going to be one of my nicer posts, and some of you may get your feelings hurt, but it’s something that I see quite frequently in the survivor, and child advocate, communities that I have a real problem with. Now don’t get me wrong, I understand that phrases like these are a…
Pin You should not feel sorry for me. This post isn’t about me. As I said, I have a condition that millions of people deal with every day. I’ll do the same. It’s about the reality that people around us are living with things that require efforts that we don’t understand. Just showing up for life every day requires effort and dedication from everyone you know. The amount of effort and challenges are different, and they are not distributed equally. You shouldn’t dismiss anyone’s struggles, especially if you’ve not been in those same circumstances yourself.Â
Some things have to be experienced to see all the details. When someone is willing to share the details of their challenges, listen and learn. Raise their voices instead of assuming you know the answers.Â
Experience is a hard teacher. We all can learn the lessons from those who’ve lived it.Â
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