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5Waves and Sibling Sexual Trauma
I first learned of the siblingsexualtrauma.com website via LinkedIn; then, I found 5Waves.org. I still don’t know why they have two websites, but I do know all of their content is empowering and helpful to any person affected by sibling sexual trauma/abuse. Most of what I first learned about the advocacy, activism and research surrounding sibling sexual trauma was on LinkedIn. I was connected to two lead researchers on LinkedIn—Emma Rees in the UK and Stuart Allardyce in Edinburgh, whose work I was citing in Resolve. Emma generously supports my mission of healthy inquiry, and when I’d reach out to her about anything new on the research radar, she’d be…
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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…
