A single family narrative is essential to the foundation of keeping unhealthy family legacies alive. Their survival depends on portraying the same, cohesive, story to prevent exposure, repercussions, and responsibility. Healthy family systems can deal with contrasting opinions, hurt feelings, and disagreements. Family systems riddled with dysfunction and abuse cannot.Continue Reading
1. Don’t assume bad intent. Assuming ill motives almost instantly cuts us off from truly understanding why someone does and believes as they do. We forget they’re a human being with a lifetime of experience that shaped their mind, we get stuck on that first wave of anger, and theContinue Reading
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/counseling-keys/202010/confronting-death-anxiety Death anxiety can be described as free-floating anxiety that one feels about dying yet is often repressed and experienced in other ways. For instance, some people may try to assert control and unconsciously advance their power and control in the world while others obsessively fight the signs of agingContinue Reading
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201023191035.htm “Having PTSD significantly increases the risk of developing alcohol use disorder, as individuals use alcohol to cope with stress and anxiety. Yet the underlying biology of comorbid disorders is generally not well understood,” says Dean Kirson, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in neurophysiology in the lab of professor Marisa Roberto,Continue Reading
https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/mental-health-peer-support-model-promoted However, director of allied health, mental health, addictions and intellectual disability, at the Southern District Health Board, Adell Cox, last week said developing the peer support network was being “progressed” as “a priority”. “It is seen as something that is going to happen.” Ms Cox said the idea wasContinue Reading
A poignant, brave, must-hear podcast by @tferriss on his ongoing healing path from the impacts of early childhood sexual abuse. https://t.co/jsa42lIe3P — Dr. Gabor Maté (@DrGaborMate) September 19, 2020Continue Reading
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201022125513.htm Increasing the amount of time spent asleep immediately after a traumatic experience may ease any negative consequences, suggests a new study conducted by researchers at Washington State University’s Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine. Published today in Scientific Reports, the study helps build a case for the use of sleepContinue Reading
https://t.co/dEWzLyG2lR — Better Blokes (@BetterBlokesNZ) April 2, 2020 See more New Zealand Family Violence Clearing House Ngā Wai a Te Tūī Māori and Indigenous Research Centre and the New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse are partnering to provide information on preventing and responding to family, whānau and sexual violence during COVID-19.Continue Reading
By Enrico Sacchetti/ESO – http://www.eso.org/public/images/potw1606a/, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=46857164 General[edit] Male sexual objectification involves a man being viewed primarily as an object of sexual desire, rather than as a whole person. Feminist authors Christina Hoff Sommers and Naomi Wolf write that women’s sexual liberation led women to a role reversal, whereby they viewed men as sex objects,[19][20][21] inContinue Reading
