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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…
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Understanding Sibling Sexual Abuse
Sibling sexual abuse is a prevalent yet often overlooked form of trauma that occurs within many families. Contrary to common belief, sibling sexual abuse transcends socio-economic backgrounds and can persist for extended periods without detection. The pervasive silence surrounding this issue perpetuates its hidden nature, leaving survivors to navigate the aftermath alone. Review of Social and Therapeutic Beliefs In my research and reading, I reviewed reports, research papers, texts and blogs on the subject of ‘incest’ and then what I could find on ‘sibling sexual abuse’. Mostly, it was lumped in under the heading of ‘childhood sexual abuse’, and thankfully, now that is changing. Sibling sexual abuse is having its…
