A key part of my healing strategy has been to challenge bad thoughts that I had about myself. My internal critic was loud and harsh and I started to challenge him every time he piped up. I forget where I read it but it has been successful. The power of my internal critic has been greatly diminished ...

Thank you Liz and Sunshine Smile for the work that you have done for us. It is sometimes a stressful and difficult job and it is too easy for the emotions stirred in moderating to creep into the rest of one's life. Thank you and I hope that you will still be around to dispense your kindness and your ...

Hey Jules. You will be fab.

I'm no saint, I am flawed, but the message in Jamie's post is not to look for people to judge, it's the opposite.

It takes the stronger person not to rise to provocation, not to judge what is perceived as provocation. When we see something that irks us, we must be better than to judge it, even if ...

DIVINE wrote: Sat Jan 28, 2023 5:07 pm Yes Sid must be member of the year ❤❤❤

The Sid comments are good, but there is a clear attack on another member here which I was going to report but I can't find the report button.

To all of you, all of us, who spoke to the any of the various aspects of the enquiry, well done. Whatever you feel about what they have reported without us, who spoke to them, they wouldn't be reporting anything. I thank you all for taking the time and effort, for facing our fears and for the ...

Well done Bunting. Jamie is a great facilitator but it's the members who make the forum what it is. They chose you.

Have an extra 50p a month, £6 a year. Not much on it's own but if we all did that?

Lottery funding?

It's an achievement to be proud of. The information is good but the forum is a saviour.. A place where kindness, compassion, empathy and understanding come to the fore. A place which many of us never knew existed let alone had experienced.

I know that I am not alone in the tears that I shed when I ...

One question asks if you have been touched sexually by someone who was more than five years ago suggesting that if, as in my case, then it is not of interest to her study. I have emailed her and commented on that.

Congratulations guys.

Also congratulations and thank you to every one who has contributes to our place, from Stephen and Actnormal who have the headlines today for the things that they have done, to everyone who found it hard but still managed to contribute some thing to make this place a better ...

It looks good and I'm not sure that it needs any more but if it does John Bradshaw, Home Coming and particularly Healing the Shame that Binds.

Back to you Mr Trustee. How may people have you helped?

Works for me now

although I couldn't see my introduction to the literature "Victim No More" by Mike Lew in the Male section.