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Advice: Healthy Boundaries

The Basics: Let’s start with the basic aspects you can frame healthy boundaries around.  Your SpaceYou have the right to personal space, the basics of not having people touching you but also your room. You can have a personal bubble and have places in your home that are only yours. Space is important and hard for … Continue reading Advice: Healthy Boundaries

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Advice Post: How To Start Talking About Our Abuse Stories

Talking About Our Abuse Stories Putting Words to The Abuse: Drawing can be a good first step to allowing thoughts to be externalized. Music and dancing even can be a way to communicate the way the body and subconscious carry trauma in a way that words don’t always understand.  Journaling is often a good way … Continue reading Advice Post: How To Start Talking About Our Abuse Stories

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Question: How can I be brave enough to say the terms ‘rape’ and shared details of trauma?

You can write about it put the details on paper. You don’t have to share all of those details with people but it can help it feel less bottled up and more acceptable to say if you have made it real on paper. After writing you can try saying rape and other specifics to yourself. … Continue reading Question: How can I be brave enough to say the terms ‘rape’ and shared details of trauma?

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Coping Skills: Healing A Relationship With Sex After Sexual Abuse

This post is going to focus on our relationship mainly with the concept of sex, masturbation and partner sex. Sexual violence at any age will affect the way the victim of the violence relates to sex. This is heightened with trauma at exceptionally young ages as the survivors never developed a relationship to sex in … Continue reading Coping Skills: Healing A Relationship With Sex After Sexual Abuse