The Damaging Role Silent Partners Play in Child Sex Abuse
The Damaging Role Silent Partners Play in Child Sex Abuse Betrayal, trauma, and the consequences Psychologists understand [...]
How Being Too Nice Can Be Dangerous for Women
How Being Too Nice Can Be Dangerous for Women Being a nice girl can set a woman up [...]
Self-Compassion Can Help Prevent Re-Victimization
Helping former victims of child sexual abuse avoid being re-victimized. This piece is part of a series directed toward [...]
Why Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse Are Often Re-victimized
Certain factors increase the likelihood of re-victimization. Due to the advent of the #MeToo movement and two new [...]
Why Don’t Victims of Sexual Harassment Come Forward Sooner?
These are eight reasons why victims of sexual harassment don't come forward. People seem to ask this question [...]
Facing the Pain of Child Abuse
Have sympathy for your pain. “Self-Compassion is approaching ourselves, our inner experience with spaciousness, with the quality of [...]
Stop Shaming Victims of Sexual Assault for Not Reporting
Ten (understandable) reasons why victims of sexual assault do not report. Being sexually assaulted in one of the [...]
Why Adult Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse Don’t Disclose
Six reasons why adult victims of child sexual abuse continue to keep the secret. As the recent HBO [...]
Why Male Victims of Child Sexual Abuse Keep It a Secret
Male victims of child sexual abuse have an especially difficult time disclosing. In a previous article, I discussed [...]
What Constitutes Child Abuse?
Many of you have clear memories of being abused or neglected as a child. But some people’s memories [...]
How Compassion Cures Shame
Compassion is like a healing balm, soothing your hurts, comforting your pain. When someone shows compassion toward you [...]
How Parents Shame Their Children
Belittling. Comments such as “You’re too old to want to be held,” or “You’re just a cry-baby,” are horribly [...]