Surviving low self esteem
Our survivor story features surviving low self-esteem. Discovering what you want to do with your life, and moving on to happiness.
Types of Therapy and Mental Health Providers
Thinking of getting into therapy? It’s essential to know your options. We discuss the common types of therapy, therapists, and counselors.
How to Choose a Therapist: Tips and Fits
Therapy can truly change your life, but choosing a therapist can be a daunting task. How to choose a therapist fit to your specific needs?
Self-Parenting for Abuse Survivors
Self-parenting for abuse survivors is an important healing process for your inner child that will move you towards a better future.
Menu for the holidays: turkey, ham, and…elephant?
Holidays for abuse survivors: it is not your job to swallow the truth elephant just to make your family feel comfortable.
Self Imposed Catch 22s – A Lasting Symptom of Narcissistic Abuse
What is Narcissistic Abuse? How can it be characterized? What is the ‘double-message double-bind” that abusers use? What can you do?
Strength in brokenness
The world breaks everyone and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”— Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms. Broken doesn’t mean beyond repair.
Heal your inner child by creating a place for them in your adult home
Integrate your younger-self into your adult life. An abusive upbringing can make us feel like our young-self is still in our childhood home.
5 tips for friends of survivors
Your friend has just told you that they have been sexually assaulted, abused, stalked or raped and you want to support them but you’re not sure what they need. Maybe it happened to them decades ago, in childhood, or maybe it was as recent as today. You want to help your friend in any way you can. Situations may vary, but here are 5 tips for friends of survivors.
How to cope with anxiety
Having anxiety is difficult to explain to people. Sometimes, you feel like everything is falling into place, and the next, your world feels like it’s crashing down on you. Stress, feelings of neglect, worries about the future, all of these can combine into an anxiety episode or attack.
Healing through the power of memoir
A memoir contains a magical ability to heal. Discover how using a memoir for healing from abuse works? How do you start?
10 signs of a toxic relationship
No relationship is perfect, be it familial, a friendship, romantic relationship, or a marriage, yet any of these can be a toxic relationship
What a rape kit is (and isn’t)
Using these rape kits, evidence can be collected from a crime scene and when it comes to assault, that crime scene is the survivor’s body.
We Need a Revised Definition of “Physical Abuse”
When people think of physical abuse they think of black eyes, busted lips, and broken arms or noses. But what if it wasn’t?
Abuse with hands, words and… bathroom scales?
Did you experience food abuse? When a parent has food available and chooses to withhold it from their child it is neglect.
Abuse survivors and our bodies: mistaking correlation with causation
Abuse Survivors and Our Bodies. Did you suffer child abuse? If so. you may care about yourself less because you think nobody cares about you.
ACE scores in prison
The US has the largest prison population in the world and highest per-capita incarceration rate but how are we treating the high rate of ACEs in prison?
What racism and abuse have in common
Victims of racism or abuse have a lot in common. Azure Moyna shares the greatest gift you can give someone who has been abused or mistreated.
The Language of Abuse
How to lose the language of abuse and achieve the miracle of actually being able to think in the new language. Emotional language is everything.
How to Break the Cycle of Abusive Parenting
Are you a victim of abusive parenting and now a parent yourself? Wonder how to break the cycle of abusive parenting? Here are some ways.
Maternal home visiting services prevent childhood trauma, saving lives, and money
20 years ago CDC research on childhood trauma, called ACEs, showed survivors lead shorter sicker lives. Why aren’t we preventing it?
Should Childhood Trauma Be Treated As A Public Health Crisis?
← Can people be saved from a terrible childhood experiences? Lisa Ling Your one-sided show on child custody put children at risk → Researchers followed a group of kids from childhood into adulthood to track the link between trauma in early life and adult...
Can people be saved from terrible childhood experiences?
US researchers have found early intervention can help prevent negative childhood experiences in infancy turning into long-term health risks.
Crisis Center counselor Stacey Jones answers 10 questions about surviving sexual abuse
← We did this for a good purpose:' Dad arrested in Norridge for placing son in car trunk defends 'experiment' Infant death and DCFS: Is unsafe sleep abusive? → Author:Donna Vickroy If the horror stories shared through the #MeToo movement, the...
Making my way through hell: A story about facing the trauma of sexual assault
I came from a really poor household. I pulled my family out of extreme poverty. Then my boss raped me, life fell apart, but I recovered.
How do Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) impact your life?
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) impact our lives from childhood to adulthood. Discover how ACEs affect you.
Battling depression
Depression is a serious illness, and there are things we don’t entirely understand about it. But the good news is that it can be overcome.
Small steps towards lasting changes in 2018
There are simple things you can do that will make a big difference in your ability to make big life changes in 2018- or any time.
Survivors Surviving the Holidays
The holidays tend to be a tough time of year for survivors of child abuse. But common decency and thoughtfulness can help you survive the holidays.
The power of tapping
Therapy similar to acupuncture and acupressure gives people a release from chronic pain, emotional problems, addictions, PTSD, and physical diseases.