About Trauma
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- Betrayal Trauma
- Corroborated cases of recovered memories
- Effect of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Gynecologic Care as an Adult
- Health risk behaviors and medical sequelae of childhood sexual abuse
- Prevalence of sexual assault history among women with common gynecologic symptoms.
- Providing dental care to survivors of childhood sexual abuse
- Survivors and Labour / Gyne Care
- Guide for doctors on how to offer sensitive care to sexual abuse survivors. (If the link stops working I have a copy here too.)
- Information Sheet for Gynecological Care Providers – For sexual abuse survivors to fill out and give to your doctor to ask for help getting through the exam (designed by yours truly, but all official looking)
- Eight common myths about child sexual abuse
Peer Support and Therapy
Allies
Background on the Concept
Bloggy Award
Pagan
Survivor Blogs and Writings
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- A Look Within the Embers
- Blooming Lotus One of the best survivor blogs I’ve read, author has DID and writes well about integration and healing
- Child abuse survivor
- Confessions of an Onion Girl
- Comfortobject – writing through recovery
- Eassurvey\’s Weblog
- Kate 1975 – I heart my friend Kate
- Kerro’s Korner
- Olympian speaks of child sexual abuse
- Reasons You Shouldn’t Fuck Kids – my friend Butterfly, a survivor with a panic disorder
- Smelling God – A survivor who is a Christian of the somewhat mystic variety
- Sublime Mercies – my friend Charlotte, who writes about disability (physical, as a result of abuse), style and being a survivor. About the intersection between how you look and what’s going on inside.
- Thoughts on Survivors Giving Birth
Any good blogs for partners of men who were sexually abused in childhood? Looking for support.
Hmm… I haven’t run across any, to be frank, but since I haven’t been in your shoes, I haven’t been looking. However, I have been a female partner of a survivor. From talking to some male survivors over the years, though, the issues are pretty similar around memory, putting things together and such. Here are my top posts for partners of survivors:
http://sworddancewarrior.wordpress.com/2011/03/13/primer-for-partners-of-sexual-abuse-survivors/
http://sworddancewarrior.wordpress.com/2010/11/07/car-crash/
http://sworddancewarrior.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/what-not-to-say-to-survivors-of-childhood-sexual-assault/
http://sworddancewarrior.wordpress.com/2011/03/02/sexual-orientation-and-sexual-abuse/ (I’m including this one because some guys who were abused by men have fears about their sexual orientation)
http://sworddancewarrior.wordpress.com/2013/04/14/rules-of-kvetching-applied-to-survivors/
http://sworddancewarrior.wordpress.com/2011/02/06/memories-of-childhood-sexual-assaut-how-are-they-different/
Actually any of the posts in the ‘how to’ section would be useful for partners too: http://sworddancewarrior.wordpress.com/category/sexual-abuse-recovery/healing-how-tos/