Articles about Sexual Abuse

How to Know When You're in an Abusive Relationship 1

Sarabeth Butts

How to Know When You’re in an ...

Even the healthiest of relationships sometimes goes through times of struggle and disconnect. Life circumstances, differing expectations, personality clashes, and...

Overcoming Shame and Childhood Abuse

In the fantastic book, It Wasn’t Your Fault, Beverly Engel, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, makes perfectly clear that if you...

How to Recover from Trauma with the ...

What is trauma? One definition of trauma is, “an experience that produces psychological injury or pain” (dictionary.com). In today’s society,...

Rape Trauma Syndrome and its Effects on ...

Almost 20 years ago, I finished a counseling certificate in graduate school in The Treatment of Perpetrators and Victims of...

Emotional Abuse Definition, Signs, ...

Emotional abuse is insidious. It isn’t always obvious at first – it can start with simple comments made by a...

5 Main Effects of Childhood Sexual ...

Childhood sexual abuse takes many forms. For this reason, it is sometimes hard to identify. In 1992, Kathleen Ratican described...

What is Emotional Abuse? 10 Ways to ...

So much has been written and discussed about physical abusive relationships that we tend to forget that there is something...

Sex Addiction: 4 Ways to Tell if You ...

One definition of sex addiction describes it as “a dysfunctional preoccupation with sexual fantasy and behavior, often involving the obsessive...

Childhood Trauma Effects that Often ...

Many people don’t like to associate their lives with trauma. In fact, many people may not have experienced what they...

Defining and Avoiding Sexual Assault

Sexual assault, sexual abuse, rape, and sexual molestation are all words or phrases we are familiar with. These terms tend...

Recovery for the Addict, the Spouse and ...

Can a Marriage Recover from Sex Addiction ? Without a doubt, healing from sex addiction is most definitely possible. But...

Addiction to Sex Affects Everyone One Way or Another

Patricia Lyon

Addiction to Sex Affects Everyone One ...

Sexual addiction is the inability to stop sexual behavior, even when it damages your life. It involves engaging in excessive...

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