Category: Mental health
6 Ways Asking for Help Enriches Your Life
I realize that in our society, it is almost fashionable to come down o [...]
6 Ways Asking for Help Enriches Your Life
I realize that in our society, it is almost fashionable to come down o [...]
3 Fail-Proof Ways Survivors Can Respond to Criticism
A Sensitive HistoryThere was a time in my life when I was very emotio [...]
Domestic Abuse And Suicide Prevention: How To Help A Loved One
Heads up! This post comes from Michelle Peterson from Rec [...]
🔥 When They Take It All Back: Why Some Survivors Recant
Updated for WeSurviveAbuse.com, 2025
Let’s return to this uncomfo [...]
The Book I Avoided—Until I Couldn’t Anymore
By a Survivor Who Now Understands Why the Caged Bird Sings
I’ve [...]
10 Excellent Memoirs about the Sexual Violence Survivor's Journey
Glad to see that we are in a season of listening to the powerful voice [...]
Part 2 Good Talk: 7 Ways Counseling Helps Survivors of Abuse to Heal
Counseling is not a weakness. It’s a warrior’s wisdom.It’s how [...]
Survivor Affirmation: I Value Wise Counseling
I value wise counseling.In times of confusion, wise words enable me to [...]
Pregnancy, Panic, and the Past: Supporting Survivors Through the Miracle of Birth
*Updated for 2025
When a close relative—let’s call her Morgan [...]
No Gratitude, No Quilt: A Lesson from My Mama (and a Little Fried Chicken)
*Updated for 2025Several months ago, my mom asked me to pick [...]
How Survivors of Sexual & Domestic Violence Can Make History
Fannie Lou Hamer!Dr. Martin Luther King Jr!Rosa Parks!Angela Davis!Dr [...]
The Benefit of Anger for Survivors: A Fire That Heals
For too long, Survivors have been told to suppress their anger. “Be [...]
The Eye of the Child Sexual Abuse Survivor: A Black Man Takes the Mic
It is my honor to highlight the words of author Tremayne Moore a [...]
Letter from an Angry Survivor of Sexual Violence about this Bill Cosby Tragedy
7/7/2015Tonight I am angry.
That isn't my default setting t [...]
How What We Don't Know About Suicide is Killing People
According to the CDC: In 2013 (the most recent year for wh [...]
