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Articles & Blog

In this area you will find articles and posts covering topics such as:

  • healing from abuse
  • the after effects of abuse
  • stories of recovery
  • recognising abuse
  • discussion papers
  • research developments
  • reviews

For article considerations, please email jonesy@isurvive.org for information and guidelines.

Articles

4 Steps Vital to Releasing Old Family Patterns, September 2014

Why Survivors Need Each Other, July 2014 

Abuse Will Not Define Me, April 2014

A Guide to Seeking Justice and Compensation: For Victims of Child Abuse, December 2014

The Story of Chiquitta – Suffering in Silence No More, December 2014

The Beauty of isurvive – Loveliness, February 2015

5 Tips for Helping a Depressed Friend or Loved One, March 2015

Working With Your Inner Child to Heal Abuse, March 2015

Parenting While Depressed: 10 Things to Remember, May 2015

How to Choose a Counselor or Therapist, June 2015

Commitment to Recovery, June 2015

The Power of Forgiveness, June 2015

Tips for Battling the Winter Blues, April 2016

Depression – Some Supportive Resources, April 2016

An Author’s Dark Past as Inspiration, April 2016

Every Person Has a Story – Tarese’s Story, April 2016

How Childhood Trauma Can Create Lifelong Adult Addicts, October 2016

Why It’s Imperative to Seek Help After Emotional Abuse, October 2016

Talking Therapy and Abuse Survivors: Does it Help or Hinder the Healing Process?, October 2016

My Healing From Childhood Sexual Abuse, April 2017

For Those Who Condemn Themselves for Acts Coerced Under Torture, October 2017

My Girlfriend Was Raped. What I Wish I Would Have Said to Her, February 2018

Why Survivors of Repeated Traumas Carry So Much Shame & Secretly Blame Themselves, June 2018

Reporting Guide (UK), January 2019

How Childhood Trauma Influences Adult Mental Health, March 2019

 

Book Reviews

Dear Little Ones, Dissociative Identity Disorder for Young Alters, July 2015

We Have Come Far, June 2014

Blog Posts

Why You’re Braver Than You Think, August 2014

Recovery from Abuse: the Search for Information/Validation, June 2014

Are We There Yet?, February 2015

Why Survivors of Repeated Traumas Carry So Much Shame & Secretly Blame Themselves, June 2018

Surviving Childhood Abuse, February 2019

Look Up, April 2021

After the Storm, May 2022

How I Learned to Be a “Real Man”: By Confronting My Child Sexual Abuse Head On, August 2022

After the Storm

By Elizabeth Shane What happens after you make the painful and difficult decision to disclose and/or speak out about your experience of childhood sexual abuse? Are you ‘fixed?’ Are you a completely different person, floating through time on a peaceful cloud, liberated and understood by everyone? Do you feel, now you have taken that brave […]

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How I Learned to Be a “Real Man”: By Confronting My Child Sexual Abuse Head On

By Phil Goldstein Looking back on who I was as a boy and an adolescent, I think it’s safe to say I didn’t do many traditionally “manly” or “masculine” things. I didn’t play a sport, except for two years of Little League and a short-lived attempt at cross country running. I wasn’t in the Boy […]

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After the Storm

By Elizabeth Shane What happens after you make the painful and difficult decision to disclose and/or speak out about your experience of childhood sexual abuse? Are you ‘fixed?’ Are you a completely different person, floating through time on a peaceful cloud, liberated and understood by everyone? Do you feel, now you have taken that brave […]

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After the Storm

By Elizabeth Shane What happens after you make the painful and difficult decision to disclose and/or speak out about your experience of childhood sexual abuse? Are you ‘fixed?’ Are you a completely different person, floating through time on a peaceful cloud, liberated and understood by everyone? Do you feel, now you have taken that brave […]

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Book Review: Dear Little Ones

Dear Little Ones Dissociative Identity Disorder for Young Alters By Jade Miller This is a beautiful little book with a powerful message; easy to read and understand with soft, non-threatening illustrations. The gentle words come from a caring ‘big sister’ perspective, trying to help little ones understand what’s going on for them within their team. […]

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Look Up

By Elizabeth Shane Look up. Two simple words that were once said to me and resonated. I never realised until recently, that I have spent nearly my whole life looking down. Looking down through shame, through fear, through self-loathing and feeling too vulnerable for people to look into my eyes and heart in case they […]

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Depression – Some Supportive Resources

Depression – Some Supportive Resources By Patricia Sarmiento Did you know that there are almost 350 million people worldwide who suffer from depression? Men, women and even children can fall victim to this mental health issue. What’s worse is that depression can lead to other devastating issues including alcoholism, obesity and insomnia. Depression isn’t something we can simply […]

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