July Carnival Against Child Abuse
Dr. Kathleen Young is hosting, and has themed this month’s edition as the Independence edition. Looks to be packed full of good stuff. If you want to do some reading this weekend, check it out!
No, what we need are not more registries. We need something much more comprehensive than that, something that will take more work than that, and something that focuses so much more on the children being abused and how to help them than on anything else, especially things that make us feel safer without providing much benefit at all.
We have spent so much of our lives trying to survive, and protect ourselves, that the confidence that comes from making our own decisions, or overcoming new challenges is a foreign concept. We want nothing less than to have anything change, and yet life is all about change. We can’t avoid change, we can only learn to deal with it.
Pin Recently, an old friend started going through some old photo albums and scanning the photos to share them on Facebook. She and I were in the same church group back in those days, and many of the photos, despite being cringeworthy reminders of what we did in our younger days, have also brought back a…
(ed. Another review from our English friend, who adds: you can still read the intro on Amazon’s British site, don’t know if the American side has the same;http://www.amazon.co.uk/Altar-Story-Homosexual-Catholic-church/dp/1844880397/ref=pd_ys_iyr3) Though we’ve read and watched a lot of newspaper and documentary reports on the subject, I find it hard to relate to religiously organised, systematic child abuse…
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
Pin This year, I’m trying something new to provide as much privacy as possible while ensuring you see all the posts from the site: a Telegram channel. If you are a Telegram user, you can subscribe to the channel here – https://t.me/childabusesurvivor
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