Recently I’ve become a grandmother. I spend hours just gazing in wonder at my tiny granddaughter. I am enthralled by her yawns, her tiny mouth searching for food, her eyes fastening intently on my face.
What strikes me is that she is entirely authentic. She has no thought of wanting to do the right thing or avoid offending me. It doesn’t occur to her to shape herself to fit our family. Read more
In this blog post Jennifer Roeder tells her story of not only being a single parent, but having to do this with a Dissociative Identity Disorder. DID was previously known as Multiple Personality Disorder and results from extreme early childhood abuse. The rest of us can only imagine the challenge DID would present in trying to parent a growing girl. Jennifer has the courage and the smarts to seek help in her parenting. She would like to hear from others who have similar experiences. If you have something to offer Jennifer, please comment below. Read more
MY LIFE STORY: SHORT VERSION OF ABUSES AND DREAMS by Vivian Treadwell
The stories you post on your website remind me all to well of mine and my siblings childhoods, sadly, this has taken a huge toll on our family cohesion, it has taken away who we all could have been, our self esteem (if there ever was any in the first place), our joy; i had to deal with bullies at school and then come home to verbal, emotion, physical, and sexual abuses, i’m not discounting any of my siblings here.
Life has been very difficult for me to face, most of my life i hid myself away from most humans because my mind just couldn’t handle facing the possibility of any more abuse coming my way. Read more
Governments and social agencies are conscientious about educating parents about safe car seats, faulty cribs, water safety, unsafe toys and numerous other items that could pose a danger to children.
Why, then, don’t these protective bodies educate parents about child sexual abuse? After all, conservative statistics say 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 5 boys will be sexually abused before the age of 18. The likelihood of being sexually abused as a child is definitely greater than the danger of being injured in a car crash, drowning, suffocating on a plastic bag, or all the other potential disasters that might befall a vulnerable little person. Read more
I am delighted to share with you my guest blog post I wrote MentalHealthTalk.Info:
As a trauma therapist, I was busy helping others recover from childhood trauma when my own incest memories surfaced. That was when I was in my late 40’s and as so many of my clients, I protested, “Why now?!” For the first time in my life things were going really well. That’s the way it is with memories. They come when we’re ready for them. Read more
