Easy Ways for Survivors to Stay Strong and Sane via @KW_Writes
This is the Reason You’re Not Reaching Your Goals and How to Fix It
This is The Right Way To Feel Your Feelings
Bravery in the Mirror: A Letter to My Abusive Father by @KW_Writes
How Do Men Deal With Sexual Abuse? Guest Paul Gilmartin @mentalpod Shares His Story
I feel beyond blessed to have connected with comedian Paul Gilmartin (of Dinner and a Movie fame). Today, Paul shares with us a bracingly honest account of dealing with covert sexual abuse and incest. I honor Paul’s forthrightness and honesty in dealing with his past, and helping so many others with theirs.
This is the Reason Writing Your Story Helps you Thrive
Writing Your Story Helps You Thrive
I tell people right away I’m a survivor of childhood sexual abuse (either face to face, or through my writing), but I didn’t use to. I held that shame and fear of judgment in tightly for years, a filmy veil of anxiety separating me from everyone else. I didn’t feel I could get close to friends or even lovers, always holding back this ugly secret. If anyone saw the real me, the tainted, used me, they wouldn’t want to pursue any kind of relationship; either that or they’d use it against me somehow.
What if There’s No Forever, Only Tonight? by guest @LorenKleinman
Please welcome my guest, esteemed poet and novelist Loren Kleinman back to the blog.