Resources and Support for Healing
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 …
I had a comment today from a reader asking if I had any suggestions or references for how to initiate legislation to make sexual exploitation and abuse by a therapist a criminal act. (While in some states it is illegal, that is not the case for every state in the U.S.) It’s an excellent question, …
So—read Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight saga? Seen the first movie? Seen “New Moon”? I ask because I’m about to go off on a rant. Yes, that’s right. I’m joining the fray and putting in my two cents about the romanticization of abusive and co-dependent relationships. Abusive and co-dependent? Well, yeah… You didn’t actually think the stories …