Abuse is the act of causing harm or distress, in an attempt to exert control, especially for one’s own advantage or pleasure. Financial and economic abuse is when someone controls another person’s ability to make, spend, and otherwise manage money. Research shows that an estimated 94% of survivors of intimate partner violence experience financial and…
Being grounded refers to having a stable mental and emotional state, as well as being fully connected to the present. When someone is grounded, they have a sense of inner peace, calmness, and their fight-or-flight response is not activated. Someone in a grounded state has a better connection with their sense of self and has…
Dissociation is a mental process that causes a disconnect between different cognitive processes such as one’s thoughts, feelings, sense of identity, memories, and consciousness. While statistics show that many people experience dissociation at some point in their lives, those who have experienced trauma dissociate at higher rates than those who have not. Research has found…
After sexual violence, many survivors experience a negative impact on their self-esteem. All of the feelings a survivor has after sexual assault are valid, meaning that they are not wrong for having these emotions, but that doesn’t mean their self-assessments are accurate. Survivors deserve to value themselves and their place in the world, and there…
Self-esteem can be described as an ongoing assessment of one’s sense of self and the value assigned to those perceptions. Self-esteem is based on perception. The value judgments people make about themselves may or may not be based in reality. Rather, a sense of self is shaped by the lens through which people see the…
The way we respond when someone shares with us that they are a survivor of sexual or domestic violence can greatly influence their healing journey. A supportive response can promote healing and strengthen the relationship you have with one another, but an unsupportive response can retraumatize the survivor and have a negative impact on their…
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