Latest words, this week on The Art of Disassociation, how protective it can be when you are parenting a child with trauma XOXO
#domesticabuse #parentingchildwithtrauma #cptsd

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Me talking to journalist Petrie Hoskin last night, lifting the lid on what really happens when your children disclose abuse. Watch the full interview:
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Agreed. But still references
criminal proceedings. What about family court findings? And how the hell did this women pay 30k. Mine was 150k. #familycourtuk #childsexualabuse

Tragic: ‘Virginia Giuffre, who accused Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse, has died by suicide aged 41, her family has said.’

I hope the social worker who said ‘sexual abuse doesn’t kill children’ to me, has seen this.
#parenrsofabusedchildren

As I was walking to the ticket barrier, someone tapped me on the shoulder. He looked like a dishy young Idris Elba, I thought he was going to tell me I had dropped something - but he said, very softly, “Just remember, this moment will pass. You’re doing amazingly. Just keep going.”

The chips were often down…small things that I balanced in a yin yang approach with the wine and fags. #parentsabusedchildren #mermaidsnotmosacs #glimmermoments

Insightful piece: "Instead of thinking about #addiction as the disease of using, let’s think of it as the compulsion to escape, regulate, or numb." #recoveryposse #trauma
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I started looking for those small glimmer moments, glimmers for my children and ones for me. It started small, I had to dig deep into my dry robe pockets.
Where do you find Hope amidst CPTSD?
#mermaidsnotmosacs
#parentsofabusedchildren
#glimmermoments

This is me. Staying anonymous for the privacy of my children.
I am not going to let the trauma and abuse define our family, my daughter’s future.
What would you like to know about the process once a child has disclosed sexual abuse?
XOXO
#parentingabusedchildren
#whenyourchilddisclosesabuse

My feelings toward one very bad CPTSD therapist, who just told me to breathe - WTAF.
EMDR worked for me, what was it for you?
#mermaidsnotmosacs
#traumarecovery
#emdrtherapy
#parentingabusedchild

I channelled Alicia from The Good Wife - despite being told by my solicitor to be more Joules…
#mermaidsnotmosacs
#parentingabusedchildren
#familycourts

How do you parent a child who has been sexually abused?
Normal teen behaviour vs PTSD flashbacks?
What advice have you found useful?
I choose not to be 'a hero' and focus on a small number of things, those that matter. #mermaidsnnotmosacs #parentingachildwithtrauma #motherofsexuallyabusedchildren

What do you do if your child has been sexually abused by their father?
You believe the system will protect them.
But when it doesn't?
When the police, social services, school - actually turn against you. Name you as the abuser.
XOXO.

#mermaidsnotmosacs
#whattodowhenchilddisclosesabuse

Read my full response to new findings that for a 2nd year in a row, suspected suicides following domestic abuse have overtaken the number of homicides involving current or previous partners. ⬇️ 2/2
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Life as mother of sexually abused children. Parenting children with trauma. Fighting to protect them so the abuse does not define them. I want to share stories of Hope, those glimmer moments that got me through.

#mermaidsnotmosacs
#arielsvoice
#mermaidshope
#glimmermoments