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The Bigger Picture of Sibling Sexual Abuse
Sexual abuse involving child siblings is thought to be the most common form of intra-familial child sexual abuse, perhaps up to three times as common as the sexual abuse of a child by a parent.
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Is Forgiveness Real?
Alice Perle invites readers to her blog series in February, sharing her eclectic healing process from sibling sexual abuse, including hypnotherapy experiences. During hypnotherapy, she explored forgiveness, visualising release from emotional ties, realising that forgiveness is not excusing abuse but freeing herself. Despite progress, she acknowledges her ongoing healing journey, coping with repressed memories and cPTSD, and considering various healing modalities. Her memoir, "Resolve", details her path to recovery and is available in multiple formats.
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Disclosing the abuse to Mum
Extract from one of the draft versions of Resolve, 2022. Some of this was cut from Chapter 3 The Problem with Disclosure. Whilst it did not make the final manuscript, I flagged it as content to share as a blog. The cited information from the Center of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse report was valuable to me for my understanding of where things went wrong for Mum and me. I vividly recall summoning up the courage to tell Mum as I walked in the same front door I used to dread walking through on all those school day afternoons for years. This was not a happy mother-and-daughter conversation we were…
