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- First, I'm sorry for not posting as much these few days. Weekends are busy for me, and I've been flooded in messages and requests for advice recently. I try to answer every message. Your responses to my recent posts have been very positive!Next...
- I want to comment as a person who is specifically licensed in rape trauma counseling, and who also works with psychologists and law enforcement about dynamics of abuser's mindsets. This is not motivated (only) by personal strong feelings, but by...
- Frankly, I agree with Mockingbird. Let me be clear that I do not think the outcome of this controversial event on this forum should be that someone comes, tail between legs, and seeks some type of absolution--we call that "crocodile tears.". On the...
- "What is REAL?" asked the Velveteen Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. "Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle? "Oh, Real isn't how you are...
- I need some help from my friends here so that I can understand this part a little better.What turmoil have you experienced in your spiritual lives as a result of being raped? If you and God have "made up" again, how did you do it?What would YOU say...
- This is part of the new book I'm writing, but it sounds like some words of encouragement could be used here. Please let me know if it's helpful.------------If you truly want to do the work to transform into a survivor, one of the fundamental first...
- As my friends and journal readers know, I am developing a book on rape recovery that differs from ANY other book ever written. The content has been largely determined by you, the women of dailystrength, as to what YOU think women in recovery from...
- the term "Survivor" has become popular to differentiate from a "victim," and in my writings I use both terms in very deliberate ways. But I'm still not completely satisfied with the term "survivor." It implies that one has made it through trauma,...
- I wrote this back during the case. If theres one word that intimidates men, the word is rape. Many of us have felt that the R-word grants a fearsome power to women, a verbal sword with which they can cut down mens social status, wreck our lives, and...
- I'll be heading north into the country a long ways for a gathering of others in my tribe, mostly, plus some other tribes who choose to participate. We'll be conducting ceremonies all weekend, including our purification, called madoodimowigamig in...
- How do YOU define "recovery? When will you know that you have reached that point? What will you now begin to do, or now STOP doing, to identify the point of being successful in coping?
- As a therapist specializing in sexual assault, I've begun working on a book to help accompany survivors through their difficult therapy process. It's sort of a "rape survivor's guide to surviving survival" (not the actual title--unless you like it)....
- this is a segment of the book I'm currently writing. I thought it was interesting information.Some interesting studies have emerged about womens use of pornography and their views of rape. Most clinical research suggests that pornography itself does...
- I posted this within another thread, but I wanted to give it it's own place. I hope this might help survivors find directions and goals and "roadsigns" through their therapy by seeing this, from the therapist's point of view.Things that make ME...
- I'm interested in questions about your experiences in therapy, if you ever went.I'd love to know what you felt your therapist did well if your treatment was successful, or how your therapist could have improved if your therapy was unsuccessful. What...