This weekend I started forcing myself to read more around trauma and I realized that there were times when I was younger when I was triggered but that I didn't understand it then.

What a relief to finally understand those times now. :)

#abusesurvivor

Days after the original NameHim website was taken down, the website now has an open source version that has interactive maps, share features, and doesn't require signup.

#domesticviolenceawareness #pedo #namehim #sexualassaultawareness #abusesurvivor

https://namehim.app/

***TRIGGER WARNING: Sexual assault***

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I am non judgmental so I don't see myself as better than anyone. I am happy 99.94% of the time. We're not all how we write.

I asked my brother if there was a way we could avoid his

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#abusesurvivor

***TRIGGER WARNING: Sexual assault***

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Boston Blue S01E15

reveals a father who abused his daughter

It brought me to tears

I was raped at the age of 11 by unknown white men. I'm not looking for sympathy.

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#abusesurvivor #neurodivergent

I live in the Now according to Eckhart Tolle so I had no expectations of change before beginning the therapy. I was just open to the experience.

I have AuDHD so I can't collate all the changes from the therapy in my mind in a single moment; but this is what

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#abusesurvivor

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One of my childhood friends had a post about Elvis on their page.

I sourced an interview with John Lennon stating that Elvis had culturally appropriated Black Music:

https://mastodon.social/@audubonballroon/114011995574701949

They unfriended me.

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#abusesurvivor #neurodivergent

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Titicut Follies released in 1967

[I was raped at the age of 11 by white men.]

starts with interviewing a young white man who abused a 11 year old child

Difficult to watch.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062374

#movie #abusesurvivor #mentalhealth

Somebody else said:

"Grounding is so, so important because when we can feel ourselves in our body in the present moment, if you can feel yourself in your body watching me now and know that where you are is now, then you don't fear being in the then,

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#abusesurvivor #ptsd

Alone and not alone: Implications for clinicians working with male survivors of childhood sexual abuse

https://icsatoday.substack.com/p/alone-and-not-alone-implications

#CSA #therapy #MaleSurvivors #AbuseSurvivor

Alone and not alone: Implications for clinicians working with male survivors of childhood sexual abuse

Adult male survivors of childhood sexual abuse face unique barriers to disclosure. This study explores their lived experiences to help clinicians create safer therapeutic environments.

International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA)

I wrote a computer program to scrape the internet for deaths in pig custody, Black historical figures etc.

I now have a list of 29,000 ish such dates.

When I saw it was Diana Ross's birthday today,

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#selfdevelopment #therapy #abusesurvivor #authenticity #blackmusic #blackmastodon