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Memoirs and Storytelling
I have always appreciated storytelling. Across every decade of my life, I have either listened to or read stories out loud to my children. Even as I learned to become a hypnotherapist, I discovered the wonderful art of hypnotic language and crafting metaphor loops. I love being mesmerised and visualising the stories as they play out on the page in front of me, through audio, or on a screen. In this week’s blog, I’m going to talk about the roles that I see memoirs and storytelling play to raise awareness and foster understanding of the family and societal taboo – sibling sexual abuse: Our memoirs and storytelling are powerful tools…
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Healthy Coping Strategies for Trauma Survivors
For May 2024, the weekly blog will be my answers to people’s questions via my Get In Touch form at www.aliceperle.com.au. We’ll begin with ‘What are healthy coping strategies for trauma survivors?’ Quite often, trauma survivors adopted unhealthy coping strategies that got them by when no one else was there for them, or when they felt that it was that way. It’s a feeling of being alone or being the only one. I choose to thank my old, unhealthy coping strategies and even current ones when they try to give me comfort and peace. However, most of those unhealthy coping strategies do not often connect with our personal values and…
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The Sunday Times Magazine Article
“Don’t Say A Word,” written by Decca Aitkenhead, is a Sunday Times Magazine Article published on Sunday, March 17, 2024. It has now been made available to read without a newspaper subscription. Noting: whilst it was a publicly produced article, it could still be triggering or upsetting. I felt shaken, sad, and happy all at the same time. I needed to get outdoors and be in fresh air after I’d read it. Please take care of yourself. The article contains interviews with survivors, sharing accounts of what they’d experienced. Also, interviews with advocates and leaders supporting survivors and preventing sibling sexual abuse from happening in the future. Sibling sexual abuse…
