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If you’ve ever felt like no matter how hard you work, you’re still struggling to get ahead, you’re not alone. Childhood trauma, including sexual, physical, and emotional abuse, doesn’t just affect your emotions; it can impact your wallet,...
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It’s a profound moment of clarity: recognizing that the decisions they made during those moments of survival were not failures but rather attempts to cope with the unimaginable.
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Years of harmful programming from both the sexual abuse and societal attitudes distort our understanding of relationships. Many male survivors often carry subconscious beliefs that
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The struggle becomes even harder when family members or others defend or excuse the abuser’s actions to preserve a certain family image...
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It was never your responsibility as a child to speak up about the abuse. That was the responsibility of the adults around you—the ones who should have noticed the signs, who should have protected you, who should have spoken up. Too often, society normalizes or ...
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Many of us struggle with the language we use to describe what happened to us. We hesitate to say the word “victim” because it makes us feel powerless, flawed, or weak. We question our worth as men, wondering how ...
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Some of us try to protect ourselves by walking away—setting boundaries that others don’t understand. We are judged harshly for not “forgiving” or “letting go” of the past, as though our pain should be forgotten for the sake of holiday harmony. In reality,...
MSJ
At the best of times the child or young person often feels a sense of confusion when exploring sexuality. Sexual abuse adds to this confusion especially when perpetrators
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you might be really on top of it one week and then all of a sudden what you’ve learnt has just turned bad and you just feel like a little pile of...
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None of that explains why I suddenly stopped mid-stride that day, struck by a new and horrible understanding of Charles’ outburst. I wish I could explain fully why it took until then for...
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Interestingly, when guys attend the workshops and we begin dropping a little knowledge on neuroscience and emotion their beliefs begin to change and accelerated healing often follows.