Sand In Grey Matter Dianna L Donnelly
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- Health & Fitness
Discussing sexual abuse & the protective ways in which the brain can hide & distort our memory.
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Normalizing Consent Before Passion
A discussion about consent, passion & childhood imprinting.
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Be Ever Vigilant With Your Children Around Others
Statistically speaking, a large portion of sexual abuse happens by someone that the victim knows. So many parents believe that their children will tell them when something happens. As a child growing up in a close-knit family, I told no one when it happened to me. Which is why your vigilance is necessary at all times when your children are left alone with other adults.
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Consent Not Considered
Another grain of sand bubbled up yesterday. Another experience that I now see so differently than I did back then.
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When the news triggers PTSD you didn't know you had.
Episode number two describes a scenario whereby I was reading the news and suddenly remembered a trauma that my brain buried for far too long.
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Talk Therapy For Sexual Abuse
The time is now to shine a light on how common sexual abuse is and how it is that the memory protects itself from the truth.