Shattering the Silence

"Your blog is full of crap." That was the subject line of an email from someone who called himself J A. He used a number of obscen...

Brian told me about his abuse as a child and said, "For years I thought I was a homosexual." Because he seemed to be a rather well...

It's not easy for most of us to turn against someone we love and whom we thought loved us. Too often the abuser was someone within our f...

When a close relative abuses us, many of us experience emotional confusion. We love our aggressor—whether it's a parent, a sibling, or a...

When someone makes a statement like that, the words disturb me. It's not natural to hate our bodies. Even if we're too fat, too shor...

For most of my adult life, I had no real body image. I looked in a mirror like everyone else, but I didn't "see" myself. Now t...

Years ago I heard the term skin hunger and I added it to my working vocabulary. It says that we humans need to be held, cuddled, and touche...