Trigger warning. "It's like the abuser's evil was shared with me and in a sense I became one with it." The sexual intimacy a woman has with her husband means that they are "one flesh" — whatever that phrase means. For me, the pollution of an abuser having sexual intercourse with me affected me to… Continue reading Sleeping with the enemy… and being ‘one flesh’ with an abuser who sexually assaults children
Tag: neuroplasticity
for posts that discuss the re-wiring of a survivor’s mind and nervous system (i.e. recovery from PTSD)
Neuroplasticity, learning disabilities and domestic abuse
I recently read The Woman Who Changed Her Brain, a book by Barbara Arrowsmith-Young who founded Arrowsmith, a secular program for students with learning disabilities. Barbara Arrowsmith-Young’s TEDx talk, ‘The Woman Who Changed Her Brain’, can be viewed here. Here is the blurb from the back cover of The Woman Who Changed her Brain: And… Continue reading Neuroplasticity, learning disabilities and domestic abuse
