Pin I’ve been doing some reading lately about this idea of fast versus slow thinking. Basically, the idea is that most of the time, we make decisions very quickly, using shortcuts to assume details, and then moving on. That’s actually a good thing, because if we really stopped and considered all of the possible details of…
Children who grew up with trauma and abuse often struggle with trying to explain it to themselves. When you’re a child, you don’t necessarily understand how large the world is, or your place in it. The world you know mostly seems to revolve around you. In fact, we normally associate understanding that the world doesn’t…
I’ll be hosting the March edition of the Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse later this month, and given my own Irish heritage, and this being the month we celebrate the Irish with St. Patrick’s Day, I thought it would be appropriate to make the theme of this year one that speaks to the Irish part…
Given the recent post I made about the power of shame to lead people to all sorts of behavioral problems, I wasn’t at all surprised to find a recent study that claims that kids who talk about their abuse and neglect are less likely to suffer from PTSD. A Penn State researcher finds an interesting…
Literally, the best reward I get from keeping up this site are emails like this one: It’s been a week since I made the call to Survivors UK, the London-based child abuse organisation. Then I found your site, no.2 when I googled. I get a date for my therapy to start in a few weeks….
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Thanks for the link and the comment!
Good luck with the new job!