It’s funny, yesterday I noticed that a post I wrote about why we should continue to talk about child abuse, because survivors need to know that they are not alone, and that there are plenty of other abuse victims who have overcome their abuse to be happy, healthy adults was exactly one year old. So…
As a survivor, appropriately marking Mother’s and Father’s Day is always tricky. We tend to see all the folks who have good, warm relationships with their parents marking those days on social media, posting their great childhood memories on Facebook, sharing old family photos, or wishing their spouse, their partner in raising their kids, a…
ABC 20/20 and Barbara Walters do not see the sexual abuse of a 13 year old boy as a serious issue.
I don’t know if it’s a coincidence, but I’ve seen four different articles in the last week that all point to something that has always bothered me about all the talk of sexual assault victims and people dealing with mental health issues. It seems as though there is one group of people who we are…
I was conversing a few weeks ago about how our minds work. In a nutshell, it’s been shown, time and time again, that the human brain is hardwired to find patterns, even when they aren’t there. Basically, when new information is introduced to us, our brain tries to fit it in with what we already…
I recently saw a link to an article that was posted a few months ago on the Good Therapy website: Why Hiding Who We Are Hurts Us While the article is about relationships and marriage counseling, part of it resonated with me as a survivor. It even matches some of the things I’ve written about…
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