The Painted Brain is a worthy model as your parish, diocese or group looks at ways to support survivors of abuse and trauma. The Painted Brain creates lasting community-based solutions to mental health challenges and the impact of social injustice through arts, advocacy, and enterprise. It is a peer-support...
The Blurt Foundation is one of the best resources on Mental Wellness When Living with Depression – or Anxiety. In a recent program, it produced a compelling examination of self-talk and why it matters so much to people recovering from abuse and trauma. We all have an internal dialogue...
Beth’s Budget Bites is an unusual blog that suits our readers who struggle financially and/or who struggle with self-care in the area of cooking. Beth’s story is inspirational. She calls herself a “food lover, numbers cruncher” who found herself staggered with debt while stuck in a low-wage job. What...
The public health crisis has created long, uninterrupted days and weeks without much social interaction or any usual cues to keep us moving along on a schedule. Even teleconferencing can’t compete with how getting out of doors or into a bustling setting can get our energies flowing and keep...
For survivors, managing money is a life skill that develops along with other self-care practices. Fortunately, there are secure budgeting apps that can help. Forbes columnist Kristin Stoller did a round up of the best budgeting apps in 2020. Options exist for the numerically challenged, for visual learners, and...
Being home indefinitely can be rough, even for introverts! There are some easy and enjoyable ways to adjust home space so we can break through the sense of spacial monotony—and the monotony of dejection, too. The idea is to create zones that are distinct, by using all our senses...
Recovery from trauma often hits a point where we want to create healthy life routines to support recovering, and that can mean looking for work that better accommodates personal needs. It may be a diagnosis we’re integrating into a whole life, or may be a new-found understanding about our...
The pandemic has created dramatic financial strain across the country, especially so for those whose financial situations have been compromised already due to mental, physical, or other disability. Too many survivors of abuse fall into these categories. Protect Yourself from Scams Here comes some practical advice. This article begins...
Flexjobs started as a small job posting site and has grown into the largest employment site for finding flexible, remote, freelance, and full- or part-time jobs that offer flexibility to the person hired. Flexjobs was created in 2007 by Sara Sutton after she started her family and, seeking at-home...
Cognitive blur, brain fog … it’s not uncommon for those of us traumatized. It can rattle us when we’re stressed out. It can interfere with even the most routine actions, adding chaos to chaos-averse lives. There’s hope, because there are many ways to improve neural pathways – long- and...
