From Victim to Leader

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

I was attending a legal tech conference last week, as part of my day job, and I was listening to a presentation about professional leadership and something the speaker said really struck me as applicable to survivors. She talked about how the best leaders are capable of leading themselves first. Meaning, they have the ability…

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Dissociation, it’s Good For You!

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 3 minutes

Late last week, and over the weekend, I was having an email discussion with an online acquaintance about child abuse, and dissociative disorders when she said something that sparked further conversation. She mentioned that “everyone dissociates and for good reasons, it’s just a matter of degrees”. That got me thinking about the coping skills we…