Child Abuse

  • Call for Contributors

    I got an email from the author of the What About when Mom is the Abuser blog today, and thought I’d pass along the information for anyone who might want to help contribute to this section of the book: I am in the process of co-authoring a book about male victims of female psychopaths (which…

  • Who are you?

    I was going to leave a comment on Tamara’s post, Who Am I without the Abuse?, but the more I thought about it, the more I wanted to turn it into a post and not take over her comments with my thoughts. This is a subject that was weird for me. I’m pretty sure I’ve…

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    Disclosure

    Every once in awhile, someone will tell me how brave I must be to talk openly about being a survivor in a public forum like this one. While I certainly don’t disagree with that, (I’m not being immodest, it does take some courage to do this and I’m impressed with all survivors who blog openly…

  • Disenfranchised Grief

    This afternoon, one of the folks I follow on Twitter regularly, Jennifer Leggio, wrote a blog post about the loss of her father. Even though she hadn’t seen him in 30 years, his death was hard on her: Because over the last year I’ve had one too many people say to me, “If you hadn’t…

  • Speaking Out

    Being a survivor is a challenge, and healing from childhood abuse is a struggle. Don’t let anyone kid you about that. What it’s not is a death sentence. There is hope, there is joy, and there is life. It may be a long, rough tunnel, and the light at the end of it may seem dim now, but it is there. Survivors need to know that, and they should hear it from us.