Well, if nothing else, this past week proved that yes, there is still definitely a limit to the amount of emotional energy I can muster up, and when I hit that limit, while I’m healthy enough to know how t not dissociate anymore, I still want to do some of the same behaviors. This week…
Wow, what great response for April’s edition! Between the new submissions and the folks who had submitted posts past the March deadline, we have over 30 posts for you all to peruse, chock full of insight, emotion, sharing, ideas, and many other things! With so many submissions, let’s get right into them! First, a few…
As I pondered the theme for this month’s Carnival Against Child Abuse of renewal, or re-birth, I kept coming back to the same thought. Namely, that when we make a turn into a different direction in our lives, whether that be something as simple as giving up smoking, or making the very first steps into…
I was reading this article on Lifehack the other day, and I thought the idea is a good one for abuse survivors, though the language might be a bt harsh for people who were truly abused by their parents, as opposed to just disappointed by their parents. Certainly, if your parents were your abusers, and…
