( Cut for talk of abuse and tools to overcome it )

( Talking about recovery, positive aspects of recovery. )

This blog has a great thread where survivors share what healing means to them.

Warning: both the blog entry itself and the comments below it contain triggers for multiple types of abuse. Abuse stories are contained in comments to the article.

( Lots of talk about closure, a brief mention of rape and dark shadows. Nothing too triggery, just a lot of fear and reluctance to move on. )

[Hello I am Celeste, new to this community. When I was looking for a group to help with my own recovery and couldn't find anything I helped start one with the help of a doctor I met at one of the progams I attended, which has now become BirdSong. We are a not-for-profit, non-sectarian, free-thinking organization created by and for Women with a ( Read more... )

I know in my soul recovery is possible.  I feel it to the depths of my being.  I have been to the darkest of places in my mind's eye and come out on the other side, time and time again.  It has cycled for me.   There have been periods of despair and confusion I never thought would end, but they did, and I was granted reprieve after reprieve.  I am ( Read more... )

Many of us are familiar with the unhealthy cycles of trauma and recovery - as abuse is often cyclical. Our abusers often cycle between hurting us and a period of apology and relative peace. It's because of that cycle that so many of us stay in those relationships. During a time of peace, or even apology on the part of our abusers, we feel hopeful ( Read more... )

Hello everyone. I've been thinking of looking into an abuse survivor community here in LiveJournal for a while now. I'm glad to have found this one. My story is a very long and involved one. I have PSD from physical abuse at the hands of my mother, a disfunctional home life, and some other various things. I've been feeling a lot better due to ( Read more... )

I just had a really random thought today that I thought I'd share. It's been five months since my ordeal, and it occurred to me that the recovery process is a lot like recovering from a brain injury. I feel like I'm having to re-learn everything about life all over again. Who I can trust, including what I can trust about my own thoughts and ( Read more... )

I'm not certain how appropriate this is for this community, but I'm not really sure where else to ask it at.

Being survivors, we are familiar with the recovery process because in some way, because we're all having a recovery right now.

My question is, what movies can you think of that are about recovery? I know that Stuart Saves His Family is a ( Read more... )