Adults who grow up as abused children have many challenges in their adult lives. These symptoms will be discussed in detail in another post. For victims, it is important that we face what happened to us, learn about its effects on our lives, and then begin the tedious, painful process of healing and recovering. It’s …
Category: Louise Behiel
Physical Abuse of Children
Physical Abuse Is there anything more heart warming than the picture of an adult holding a tiny baby? Such pictures proliferate our culture. This article, the second of four on child abuse, was particularly hard to write. Looking at pictures of children burned, beaten and murdered are hard to look at. It is sickening to …
What’s Happening on the Web? January 20
After 13 years of trying Laura Drake sold to GCP Here’s what she’s learned. Chuck Wendig has provided a list of 25 things writers should start doing. WARNING: this site is full of great info but take your tolerance with you. Chuck has an occasional fondness for four letter words. Joel Friedlander from the Book …
A Life Changing Metaphor
Some of you may know that I’m a therapist. I specialize in the issues of women, especially those who were abused as children. Ironically, much of my small practice is with men. Apparently they like the fact that I’m not easily shocked, that sexual words and descriptions don’t faze me and that I am very …
Week One: EMOTIONAL ABUSE
Emotional abuse is the most pervasive of all abuse committed against children. It almost always accompanies the other kinds of abuse while also occurring on its own. What is it? The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (London, UK) defines Emotional abuse as the persistent emotional maltreatment of a child such as …