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….
In thinking about depression the last few days it occurs to me that so much of the battle to overcome it is simply about looking forward instead of back. I think this is obviously the case in depression caused by an abusive childhood, or any other kind of trauma, but I think it’s also true…
The 7th Edition is up over at Sadly Normal. As always it looks like there’s quite a lot of reading material over there. Since we’re traveling to visit family I’m going to have to just look forward to reading it when I’m back home. Hope you all have a great holiday! Technorati tags: SadlyNormal, CarnivalAgainstChildAbuse…
I have to confess. I got off the regular exercise bandwagon last month and haven’t gotten back on it. Looking back I can see the problem. I went from a vacation, straight into having and recovering from surgery, and just when I was getting back on my feet from that, I caught a mean case…
One of the “suggested topics” Lisa has for this month’s carnival against child abuse is “What inspires you to heal?”. I found that an interesting topic, not so much because I think there’s any great inspiring thing out there, but because really the answer for me was a simple one. I hit rock bottom in…
Lisa from Sadly Normal will be hosting this months edition of the Carnival Against Child Abuse. She’s got some great suggested topics listed for the last edition of the year, as well as an offer to host your writings if you don’t have your own blog. Her topics have got me thinking a bit. Hopefully,…
