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Forgiveness

Healing from child abuse is a long process which involves specific stages and if you so choose, ends with forgiveness. The first stage is acknowledgment. Despite being severely beaten, I did not realize what happened to me was abuse for two reasons. First, my mind blocked out the worse parts. Second, I did not have [...]

November 23rd, 2009 | Category: Child Abuse Survivors, child abuse issues, effects of child abuse | Leave a comment

How do we spot light the issue of child abuse without child abuse stories?

Outside of individual cases, the subject of child abuse doesn’t seem to make news often. How do we keep the conversation on the subject of child abuse, while not diving into individual child abuse stories that feature blow by blow accounts or pictures of beaten dead babies that trigger and horrify us?

I know many, [...]

September 16th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: child abuse issues | Leave a comment