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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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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…
