Recovery from Child Sexual Abuse: Iden:fying Perceptual Distor,ons Svava Brooks Cer,fied Child Sexual Abuse Preven,on Educator Advocate and Survivor www.Educate4Change.com svava@educate4change.com
This program is for informational and educational purposes only. It is the counsel or not meant to replace treatment of a licensed therapist.
How are you Feeling?
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What do you see?
How does it get in the way of your healing? 2013 Svava Brooks, educate4change.com
Healing is hard No one cares I will always be this way OR I am courageous I am learning to love myself What maBers is how I see myself 2013 Svava Brooks, educate4change.com
Ready to take down your glasses? Why? -‐ Our nega,ve core beliefs start to color our world and everything we see and how we feel.
-‐ What fears come up for you? -‐ Why do we resist? -‐ Share 2013 Svava Brooks, educate4change.com
Change your mind – Change your world
Breaking the Cycle – Sandra P. Riggin How and why?
Requires work, dedica,on and consistent effort. Sample phrases: Write them down, carry them with you. • Thinking Feelings Behavior • People don’t do things against me, they do things to meet their own needs. • How people behave tells me about them, not about me. • Things don’t bother me, it’s the view I take of them that does • I learned to be this way, so I can learn to be different, and I am learning to be different • That was then and this is now • My name is______________ and I am ENOUGH!! -‐-‐ From the Breaking the cycle.
2014 Svava Brooks, educate4change.com
Resources
The healing begins with you and the suffering can end with you. -‐-‐Svava Brooks
• Survivor Support and Resources thelamplighters.org siawso.org
malesurvivor.org Call 211 OneHealth.com acestudy.org
psychologytoday.com educate4change.com JusLell.org jaimeromo.com
Great Books for survivors: The Courage to Heal – Ellen Bass Breaking the Cycle – Sandra Riggins Repair Your Life – Marjorie McKinnon
1in6.org
Taalk.org survivormanual.com survivingspirit.com connec,onssp.org
2013 Svava Brooks, educate4change.com