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Foster Care Part 2 *trigger warning*
Foster family number 3 In 1991, I was placed with a black family who were personal friends with placement number 2. The new family lived in the same area, a few streets away from foster family number 2. Within four … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse, childhood abuse, CSA, family, foster care, healing, historic abuse, Mental Health, mental-health, social work, Trauma
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Foster Care *Trigger Warning*
I was born in Bristol City, England UK in 1979, after my parents relocated to Bristol in the early 1970s. Most of my childhood was spent growing up during the 1980s and 90s. Bristol has a rich complex history, and … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse, child abuse, foster care, mental-health, Neglect, Trauma
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Utilizing Recovered Memories
I thought I would post more about my experience of memory recovery, and how it worked for me. First I will touch on the fact that repression of memories doesn’t happen on its own. It happens because care givers around … Continue reading
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Tagged CPSTD, healing, Memory, Memory Retrieval, Mental Health, PSTD, Recovered memory, therapy, Trauma
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CSA: From a legal perspective.
To be clear from the start. When looking at your experience from a legal perspective, the therapeutic side does not really come into it. Legal and therapy are too different entities that have too different jobs to do. In blunt … Continue reading
The Interrelation of CSA and Personal Circumstance.
Child sexual abuse affects every survivor differently — but the outcomes are not shaped by trauma alone. Class, race, gender, economics, and family systems interrelate with how survivors experience abuse, how they are responded to, and how they recover. Drawing … Continue reading
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Are Recovered Memories Real?
What a title, and what a war recovered memories saga had on society, the courts and world. When I first learned about recovered memories, it was the only thing that explained what I had gone through. For me, every little … Continue reading
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Tagged betrayal, healing, Memory, mental-health, relationships, Trauma
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BOOK – Child Sexual Abuse in Protective Custody: From a Lived Perspective.
I am writing a book based on my own lived experience within the Bristol City Care system. It is a book broken down into subsections and parts. That include Life Circumstance, Police, Courts & Legislation, Mental Health & Well-Being, and … Continue reading
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The Character Assassination of Foster Children: A Hidden Truth Within the UK Care System
By a survivor of the Bristol City Council care system (1980s–1990s) A Silent Injustice Hidden in Plain Sight The character assassination of foster children is one of society’s most uncomfortable secrets. It rarely enters public debate because it forces us … Continue reading
Child Sexual Abuse, being a foster child, and Justice
When one thinks of CSA and Justice, they think of a criminal process of arrest, sentencing and remedy. In the world of CSA, that is anything but the truth.. In CSA there are many hurdles to get over. The first … Continue reading
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Over-Stimulation, trauma and finding me time.
In my lived experience of recovering from childhood trauma. Learning to regularize time set specially for myself, was and is important. Otherwise, it can be quite easy to forget about my own needs. I will notice my well-being and physical … Continue reading
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Tagged health, massage, massage therapy, me time, over-stimulation, relax, relaxation, Spa, stress, tension, wellness
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