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Healthy Place Looking for Mental Health Bloggers

The Healthy Place website is looking for some freelancers to work on mental health blogs over on their site. Like they say on the tv show America’s Got Talent: “So you think you have talent?” If so, we hope you’ll consider blogging...

Published Fri, Mar 14 2014 5:37 AM by Child Abuse Survivor

Filed under: Newsworthy

Avoidance Does Not Help

Given the recent post I made about the power of shame to lead people to all sorts of behavioral problems, I wasn’t at all surprised to find a recent study that claims that kids who talk about their abuse and neglect are less likely to suffer from...

Published Thu, Mar 13 2014 7:17 PM by Child Abuse Survivor

Filed under: Newsworthy, Child Abuse

Challenging Thoughts on Compassion For Offenders

Over on Theo Fleury’s website, there is a guest post today by Bob Spensley about having compassion for offenders, whether they be criminals, political oppresors, kidnappers or sexual predator. Granted, this is not the most popular way to approach...

Published Sun, Mar 09 2014 2:15 PM by Child Abuse Survivor

Filed under: Observations, Child Abuse

The Power of Shame

I caught a mention of a TED talk relating to shame and even though the speaker, Brene Brown, wasn’t specifically talking about survivors, I think there’s a lot of information that applies to survivors. Shame is an unspoken epidemic, the secret...

Published Fri, Mar 07 2014 10:56 AM by Child Abuse Survivor

Filed under: Child Abuse

The Importance of Sharing

Lately, something on this site has been keeping me a little busier than normal. There seems to be some reason that Google has stopped directing people to the home page, and listing this site in it’s search results even when you search for the URL...

Published Wed, Mar 05 2014 5:45 PM by Child Abuse Survivor

Filed under: Site News

Unwanted Touch

On a recent Saturday afternoon, my wife and I went for a country drive to one of the cute small towns in our area of the country. We stopped in a little coffee shop, and were greeted warmly by the elderly mother of the shop’s owner. Unfortunately...

Published Thu, Feb 27 2014 9:25 AM by Child Abuse Survivor

Filed under: Child Abuse

Depression and Self Help

No, I’m not going to suggest that a couple of self-help books here and there are all you need to overcome depression. But, I saw a couple of articles recently that reminded me of my own struggles with depression, and that the best friends, the one’s...

Published Tue, Feb 25 2014 7:55 AM by Child Abuse Survivor

Filed under: Depression

Looking Up to People With Flawed Characters

Joe Navarro, in his Spycatcher blog, asks an important question about all the Woody Allen talk. Can we really separate someone’s art, or talent, from their character. Certainly, it seems like we go to great pains to do that, but should we? Consider...

Published Mon, Feb 24 2014 8:35 AM by Child Abuse Survivor

Filed under: Child Abuse

Depression for Christians

Since I have written before about Evangelicals and the seeming belief that no treatment is needed for mental health issues, I thought I should share this article that a friend of mine on Facebook posted. 5 Things Christians Need to Know about Depression...

Published Sat, Feb 22 2014 6:48 AM by Child Abuse Survivor

Filed under: Depression

Blaming the Victim or Soothing Our Own Anxiety?

Whatever you choose to believe is the reason for someone being raped, or a child being abused, or someone being murdered, we all instinctively try to make sense of it, to find a reason why it happened. More importantly, we want to find that reason so...

Published Wed, Feb 19 2014 3:18 PM by Child Abuse Survivor

Filed under: Observations, Featured

Featured Posts From the Past

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Published Mon, Feb 10 2014 9:03 PM by Child Abuse Survivor

Filed under: Recommended Reading

Davone Bess and Metal Illness

Cross posted from my sports blog. As someone who’s been interested in news about mental illness and also sports, I read Greg Doyel’s piece on Davone Bess, and whether the Dolphins had a duty to help Bess deal with his demons, or were...

Published Fri, Jan 24 2014 8:10 AM by Child Abuse Survivor

Filed under: Observations, Depression

Dehumanization

Back in November, as we were making our way around the Colosseum in Rome, I couldn’t help but think about the thousands of people who died in this arena. At the time, this was considered “entertainment”, and was used as a way to sate...

Published Wed, Jan 22 2014 5:22 PM by Child Abuse Survivor

Filed under: Observations

Welcome to 2014!

Usually, as part of my year end ritual of looking back on the previous year, I post a slideshow of my favorite photos that I took during the past year. This year, since I started a blog dedicated to just photography, you can find that slideshow over there...

Published Wed, Jan 01 2014 11:22 AM by Child Abuse Survivor

Filed under: Personal News, Child Abuse

Another Convicted Molester Gets No Jail Time

This time it’s the case of the rape away the gay pastor, who tried to explain away his sexual abuse of boys by claiming he was trying to keep me from being gay, who has had his sentence reduced to 5 years of probation and mandatory sex offender...

Published Tue, Sep 17 2013 6:53 PM by Child Abuse Survivor

Filed under: Newsworthy, Child Abuse

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Depression for Christians

Blaming the Victim or Soothing Our Own Anxiety?

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Davone Bess and Metal Illness

Dehumanization

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Another Convicted Molester Gets No Jail Time