July Blog Carnival
The July Edition of the blog Carnival Against Child Abuse is up, hopefully I’ll be able to get some time to read through some of the other entries!
Pin I wrote about this video on my tech blog earlier this week because websites, social networks, and pretty much everything on the internet are in a constant battle for our attention. In the video, Tristan Harris talks about our intentions and how the web is designed to override that. Think about it: how many times have you…
Pin Since my work travel schedule had a brief break this month, it was time to get some things taken care of. This week, it was a visit to the dentist for a root canal and a crown. So yeah, if you want to know if I’m enjoying my time at home, not as much as…
The latest episode of the Survivor Stories podcast, featuring Ben Glade and Annaka Vimahi, brought home two important things to know about child abuse: 1. How deep does the secrecy surrounding child abuse run? A brother and sister, 4 years apart, have no idea they were both being abused until they were in their thirties….
Pin What if a study found that 65% of sexual abuse survivors are “mentally healthy” as adults? Would you believe that? Granted, it might be difficult to swallow that as fact. I’m fairly skeptical of exactly how this study was conducted myself, but I also have to go back to my understanding of statistics and math…
So nice to see such a large number of submissions, and even more, some new folks submitting for the first time! Thanks to everyone for getting the word out, and for sharing their posts with us. It truly shows me that there are many, many survivors finding their voices during this month of child abuse…
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…
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