Resources and Support for Healing
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This week marks the one-year anniversary of the Surviving Therapist Abuse site! I started this blog last year because I needed to speak out and tell my story, and because I wanted to help increase awareness about this often overlooked form of exploitation and abuse and provide resources for those in need. When I launched …
The following is an article by David Clohessy, Executive Director of SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests), published on the CNN Belief Blog on June 14, 2010. In the article, Clohessy responds to the Pope’s most recent apology about the clergy sex abuse scandal and offers suggestions for action and reform. As Clohessy …
This past Thursday I did something for myself I’ve been meaning to do for a long time: I went to a Mindfulness Meditation group. Lately, I’ve been wanting to develop more of a meditation practice. I know about all the reputed benefits of meditation and I have no doubt that it would be good for …
I just read an extraordinary article about Eric MacLeish, the lead attorney for the clergy sex abuse scandal at the Archdiocese of Boston. After being part of the successful lawsuit against the diocese and helping to win an $85 million settlement for abuse victims, MacLeish began to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder as memories of …
I saw an interesting segment on Oprah this week. One of the guests was Gavin de Becker, security expert and author of The Gift of Fear (a book I highly recommend). De Becker, who says that violent crimes against women are often predictable, preventable, and committed by someone the victim knows, has developed a new …