Resources and Support for Healing
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 …
Recently I came across an article about Sogyal Rinpoche, the renowned Tibetan Buddhist teacher and author of the classic The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. The article, published on the website Dialogue Ireland, dealt with Sogyal’s alleged sexual misconduct with students and devotees and some of the media responses to the stories of abuse. …
It’s not about the money. Even when it is. * * * I imagine that a lot of people, when they consider therapist abuse and exploitation, don’t really give much thought to the money factor. Sex grabs the big headlines and distracts people from the more practical and mundane elements of a therapist’s violations. Yet, …
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I read an interesting post by Marcella at abyss2hope called “Victim vs. Being Multifaceted Human Beings.” I encourage you to check it out. This is such an important topic. (I wrote about it a while back in my post “But I Don’t Want to Be a Victim…”) As victims/survivors, we get so many mixed messages …