Resources and Support for Healing
After posting the Angela Shelton trailer, I found out that she was a speaker at the SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) National Conference. You can download a copy of the SNAP 2009 Conference program through my Articles & Publications page. The program has notes on the speakers and includes some great resources. …
This is the trailer from the award-winning documentary “Searching for Angela Shelton.” I enjoyed watching it and wanted to share it with you. It’s short but powerful. You can find out more about the film and Angela Shelton on the website www.SearchingforAngelaShelton.com. Thanks to Tim Fischer for sharing this. Here’s a blurb about the film: …
For much of the past week, even longer really, I have been trying to draft a post on the topic of consent. As in why there can be no real consent for sex between a therapist and a patient. No small task, that. But for some reason I felt compelled to take it on. At …
Like every victim of therapist abuse, I have wondered whether I was in some way responsible for what happened. Even after almost four years of recovery work and having at least five therapists tell me that this was not my fault, I still have my occasional doubts. I do now understand that I showed up …
Telling was a scary thing. As someone freshly out of an abusive, highly manipulative situation, I needed an extraordinary amount of validation. Here’s what you have to keep in mind: I didn’t know that I was being abused and exploited until someone told me—afterward. I had basically been in an altered state (I think of …
I want to make a clarification regarding my post “Does Anyone Really Want to Know about Therapist Abuse? Part 1,” since a couple of people have expressed some concern over it. I did receive support after my abusive situation ended, and I did not mean to suggest that I had not or that no one …