Adults Abused as Children Archives - Heal Write Now for Trauma Survivors & Adults Abused as Children https://healwritenow.com Writing & Inspiration to Heal Trauma Fri, 20 Jul 2018 11:43:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.5 Listen to Survivors Speak after Years of Being Silenced https://healwritenow.com/listen-to-survivors-speak-after-years-of-being-silenced/ https://healwritenow.com/listen-to-survivors-speak-after-years-of-being-silenced/#comments Fri, 20 Jul 2018 11:43:59 +0000 http://healwritenow.com/?p=4827 I hope you watch this entire clip but more than that, I hope survivors get heard. The speeches are powerful, direct, insightful, and indicting. The sentiments, unfortunately, are not. The desire to matter, to be seen, believed, validated and supported is universal. It’s what is often denied. It’s why I feel gutted today. I can’t lie. […]

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]]> https://healwritenow.com/listen-to-survivors-speak-after-years-of-being-silenced/feed/ 3 ACE Study, Scared Sick & Donna Jackson Nakazawa Announces #FemaleAdversity Series https://healwritenow.com/ace-study-scared-sick-donna-jackson-nakazawa-announces-femaleadversity-series/ https://healwritenow.com/ace-study-scared-sick-donna-jackson-nakazawa-announces-femaleadversity-series/#comments Sat, 31 Mar 2018 17:00:17 +0000 http://healwritenow.com/?p=4766 I was reading over an essay co-written by Dr. Robert Anda and Dr. Vincent Felitti. I found some quotes I love. They are simple, short and clear. They are all from this book, The Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease: The Hidden Epidemic. It was published in 2010 and is edited by Ruth Lanius, […]

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]]> https://healwritenow.com/ace-study-scared-sick-donna-jackson-nakazawa-announces-femaleadversity-series/feed/ 1 Trying Not to Die of Old Age at 28 https://healwritenow.com/trying-not-to-die-of-old-age-at-28/ https://healwritenow.com/trying-not-to-die-of-old-age-at-28/#comments Thu, 29 Mar 2018 11:14:08 +0000 http://healwritenow.com/?p=4627 I wrote the following in 1995. I was six years into a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder from childhood. The ACE Study wasn’t yet published. It was the feel-it-to heal days of therapy which were all talk talk talk, which often made survivors like myself feel far worse. I had already survived childhood and was […]

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]]> https://healwritenow.com/trying-not-to-die-of-old-age-at-28/feed/ 1 Be With Us, Like Oprah & Trying Not to be Post-Traumatically Pissed (Days 6 & 7) https://healwritenow.com/be-we-us-like-oprah-trying-not-to-be-post-traumatically-pissed-days-6-7/ https://healwritenow.com/be-we-us-like-oprah-trying-not-to-be-post-traumatically-pissed-days-6-7/#comments Sun, 18 Mar 2018 14:04:59 +0000 http://healwritenow.com/?p=4707 Survivors OWN ACEs / 30 Days after Oprah on 60 Minutes Day 7/6, Days 5, Day 4,  Day 3, Day 2, Day 1/Intro) Aha Day 6: Survivors, parents, and teachers OWN this conversation & post-traumatically pissed For too long it’s been academics, clinicians and people with Ph.D.’s (mostly white dudes) talking about PTSD, adversity, healing, and health […]

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]]> https://healwritenow.com/be-we-us-like-oprah-trying-not-to-be-post-traumatically-pissed-days-6-7/feed/ 1 Vulnerable Not Damaged: 30 Days After Oprah https://healwritenow.com/vulnerable-not-damaged-30-days-after-oprah/ https://healwritenow.com/vulnerable-not-damaged-30-days-after-oprah/#comments Sat, 17 Mar 2018 00:38:08 +0000 http://healwritenow.com/?p=4699 Survivors OWN ACEs, 30 Days After Oprah (Day 4,  Day 3, Day 2, Day 1/Intro) Day / Aha 5: Children are Vulnerable and Not Damaged Trauma that happens during development is developmental trauma. Or, as Dr. Bruce Perry said: “That very same sensitivity that makes you able to learn language just like that as a little […]

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