Q + A understanding how childhood sexual abuse can affect you and how to reengage with life.

Hello lovely listeners!! 🎙️ ✨💛

TW - this episode discusses sexual abuse and child sexual assault. This episode also discusses pregnancy and parenthood- if this is triggering for you in anyway - please skip this episode.

Join us for part two of the listener Q&A!! 💕

 Aimee and Kat share their pit and peaks of the weeks that have been ✨💛

We also answer YOUR questions on:
✨Why is it when someone tells you not to do something you NEED to do it?
✨How to work through resentment?
✨How to reengage with life! Feeling so flat/dissociated/ disengaged and want to feel like I'm living!?
✨What is PMDD?
✨ How does childhood sexual abuse affect you?

Please let us know what you think of this episode and if you have any questions you would like answered, send them to our DMs!😍💛  @thepsychologysisters!


For support please head to:
1800RESPECT is available for free, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to support people impacted by domestic, family or sexual violence.

National Sexual Abuse and Redress Support Service 
Provides 24/7 telephone and face-to-face counselling for people impacted by institutional child sexual abuse. This means adults who were sexually assaulted as a child at an institution — like a school, church, club, or children’s home — or by someone who worked at one of those places — like a teacher, a religious figure, or a camp leader — for example. The counselling is offered to survivors, as well as other people impacted, like parents or professionals.
Phone: 1800 211 028. Available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

National Violence and Abuse Trauma Counselling and Recovery Service 
Telephone and online support, as well as information and referrals, for anyone in Australia who is or has experienced domestic or family violence, or those who support them.
Phone: 1800 385 578.

Rainbow Sexual, Domestic and Family Violence Helpline 
Provides 24/7 telephone trauma counselling from counsellors who have completed specialist training to support anyone in Australia who is from the LGBTIQ+ community and has recently or in the past experienced domestic, family or sexual violence. The service also provides telephone support to family members, friends and supporters, or professionals who are impacted by violence targeted towards the LGBTIQ+ community.
Phone: 1800 497 212. Available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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