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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…
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Weight is Never the Problem
In Resolve, I speak of hypnotherapy I sought out because I wanted to do something about the weight I had accumulated at one point in my life journey! I approached that as a wishful thinking exercise, hopeful that whatever hypnotherapy did, it would make me never be overweight again—like Magic. I clearly hadn’t had hypnosis before then, and now I have certification as a hypnotherapist myself, so I do have a much greater understanding of how these things work. Back then, I had no idea! I went to my first session with weight being our topic. Very quickly, our consultation turned to my history of sibling sexual abuse. Then, over…
