Now here’s a tricky topic if I ever heard one. How can you, a person outside of your loved one’s abusive relationship, help her in any way? Is it possible to make her abuser behave differently? Nope. Is it possible to get her out of that situation?! Not without her consent. Is it possible to [...]
I often hear domestic violence survivors complain that the counselor they are seeing with their partner has sided with him/her. These victims expected to seek therapeutic remedy for the dysfunction that they live, and they discover they have gained another “enemy.” Here are some things you will want to know if you are going to [...]
That may sound like a dumb question. You should know if you are being mistreated. You might be surprised how many people are abused who don’t recognize that they are being victimized. Abuse can be verbal. If you live with someone who belittles you, calls you names, puts your ideas down, or just doesn’t listen [...]
What’s the answer to healing a person’s sexual feelings after being sexually abused as a child? We all know that most child abuse survivors are left confused about their sexual identity… So What’s the answer? The answer, my friend, is to stop banging your head against the wall using strategies, methods and medications that DON’T [...]
Nearly a decade ago a woman said to me, people won’t trust you if/when they know you are a domestic abuse survivor. And I thought, why not? Having moved beyond my own personal ordeal with domestic violence, I’m beginning to understand what she meant. It’s hard to trust a domestic abuse survivor, because they will [...]
The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (The Act) runs to more than 330 pages so one must accept the risks of a brief overview. In essence it gives certain right to the creators of certain material. These rights limit the freedom of others to copy, adapt, distribute, communicate to the public by electronic means, [...]