Post Guide

Looking at our posts you can probably see they generally start with a label telling you what kind of posts it is.

Post Types:

Advice: We give our insight into topics relating to healing, generally based around topics our community brings up. Ex: Understanding and creating Healthy Boundaries
Community: Projects that engage our community
- Media-Collections of media we suggest people can engage in Ex: Books about Sexual abuse
Coping Skills: Descriptions of coping techniques or skills designed for a specific struggle. Ex: Grounding Skills
CSA Basics: The basic topics survivours should know Ex: What is Sexual Abuse
Culture: Discussing topics more related to the cultural perception of trauma or social issues Ex: Do people have a victim complex
Diagnosis Primer: Gives a 101 understanding of a diagnosis or a group of diagnoses. Ex: Dissociative disorders
For Loved Ones: Posts geared towards non-survivors who want to support survivors
Informational Article: Posts describing a topic for educational purpose.
- Abuse Dynamics-Covers topics relating to the effects of abuse and social relationships Ex: Trauma Bonding
- Psychology Research-Looking more at the neurophysiological, psychological aspects of traumas effects or statistical-based research Ex: The connections of the mind and body
Questions: Posts based on a question we received usually through our Tumblr
Media: Posts with suggestions for other media about trauma. Ex: Songs about sexual abuse
Symptom Explainer: Posts that explain specific symptoms common to trauma survivors. Ex: Flashbacks
Therapy Modalities: Descriptions of how specific forms of therapy work Ex: EMDR
Stories: Stories of sexual trauma/recovery
Updates: Information on this site or the wider campaign

About

This a community where survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse, abbreviated as CSA support others who have experienced the same abuse. We support all survivors of childhood sexual abuse of all sexualities, races, religions, disability and ethnicities. Abuse and trauma know no boundaries, and neither does our support and love.

We Also work to support those who have experienced less common forms of CSA like Child On Child Sexul Abuse (COCSA), sex trafficking, and online abuse.

This blog will share informational posts on mental health, coping skills, resources, and information on seeking help when people might need it. Supporting others through emotional support is key to our work.

We will also share stories (our own and others) here and write some more opinion based posts on cultural topics surrounding sexual violence. You can always email us with your own stories you wish to share.

Our motto “Educating & Supporting Via Love” states or main goal, educating and supporting. I believe these are the two things survivors most often lack from other people.

Our Story

We started as just a blog on Tumblr to have a place for survivors of CSA to vent and tell their stories. I had been feeling alone in my trauma and knew others had too through having known many survivors myself and seeing others talk within recovery communities online. This pushed me to try and break this isolation for myself and others. But quickly I learned that many of us who experienced abuse didn’t have any support, and even less education and understanding. The people with the first-hand experience of abuse and trauma were just as confused if not more so than the general public.

The number of messages we received of people just wanting to even know if what happened was abuse broke my heart. I had gone through similar emotions (and still am at times) around understanding my own experiences with abuse and other forms of sexual violence. It wasn’t something I ever learned or was told about when i was young. And even worse was taught a lot of broken ideas about sex from my upbringing that put shame into me about sexual violence I was the victim of. It also had me thinking about experiences of confusion and invalidation with other forms of abuse and trauma too.

People also were woefully uneducated on the psychology, sociology and other forms of research done into these experiences. Understandings of trauma outside media depictions were limited to nonexistent. So many people were confused or invalidated by these ways of viewing there health and well being.

So the mission shifted from primarily allowing people to have an outlet for their pain to equally offering skills and knowledge to help with them with healing. Sharing coping skills and advice to manage life. Educating these people on the common effects of abuse, the science behind the way trauma works and information about wider sociological functions like consent and treatment. I never pretend i can read minds or diagnose others, but even without that ability, we have made strides to arm the people who ask us for help with the information to start to heal.

Even more, though I realised that sometimes the best people to support survivors, were other survivors. Not only in commiseration but first-hand knowledge. Other people are always needed, but shared trauma is important.

While we are not certified psychiatrists but we have learned a lot through other activism, life experinces, and personal love of the feild. Some of this history includes various forms of volunteering with education and raising money for mental health charities and working with young kids mental wellness struggles. Also having been a patient in the mental health system within the US since being very young. This does give us a good understanding of providing emotional support and some knowledge of coping skills. It also meant that we met a wide variety of people with mental health struggles, this was ema an eye-opener to the kinds of struggles out there giving a visceral understanding that can be guided by finding a place to convert to the real help.

The “via love” in our slogan is key to our work. Love and compassion are the only ways anyone can really help others, and it so sorely lacking in culture and in the mental health field. Showing people love is the only way they can ever learn love themselves.

So as I’ve worked on this I’ve decided to try and expand the work we do, and I will continue to do so. This new site will hopefully be the first step in our expansion of help.

-Admin 1