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Understanding the Context: Family Dynamics
Alice Perle (pen name) shares reflections on context, family dynamics, and the resolve to keep going and to keep growing. Survivors and others affected by SSA, often carry a unique kind of silence, not just from the harm or abuse itself, but from trying to safely navigate the dynamics within the family that surrounded it. Beyond disclosure, the issues that compound trauma begin, especially when families are unsupported, and disclosures come in adult life, not in childhood. In the sub-title of Resolve are the words ‘healthy inquiry’, because it felt healthy, to go squirrel around, to understand what I could, then take it in and see if that mattered to…
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When Are You?
Coming back to the moment(s) after grief. That is, the grief we must inevitably walk through in our recovery from sibling sexual trauma and abuse (SSTA). So it’s been a little longer than I expected between blog posts. I just saw the Intentional Pause was pressed back in March… I had imagined the next entry would be sharing finished pieces of artwork — but they’re still sitting quietly in my peripheral vision, to the right of my desk, not forgotten, they did progress, however they are unfinished. I’m chipping away, not rushing. The months between my last post and now have been full of experiences I never envisioned. I’ve continued…
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Pressing Pause, With Intention
Alice Perle reflects on the power of survivor conversations and shares why she's pressing pause on her weekly blog—to make space for listening, learning, and returning with renewed clarity.
