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Thinking it through with Latoya!
Mar 30, 20221 min read
Dealing with Medical Gaslighting
By Mindy Lawrence If your doctor tells you that you aren’t really sick, that it’s in your head, or if you’d just lose weight, you’d be...
Mar 18, 20221 min read
SEXUAL ASSAULT: LOCKER ROOM TALK
By Mindy Lawrence As long as I can remember, I‘ve heard the phrase “locker room talk.” It’s supposedly the rough and tumble banter that...
Mar 10, 20222 min read
Sexual Assault: Rape Kits and the Backlog
By Mindy Lawrence Less than every two minutes someone is sexually assaulted in the United States. The trauma from the event makes it...
Mar 9, 20221 min read
SEXUAL ASSAULT: CONSENT
By Mindy Lawrence Sexual consent is an important part of sexual relations. Getting and giving permission to have sex with someone, or...
Feb 10, 20221 min read
EMOTIONAL ABUSE: Dealing with a Manipulative Person
Manipulative people harm others. We’ve all known one or more of these individuals. They take advantage of their victims to get what they...
Jan 19, 20220 min read
Jan 18, 20221 min read
EMOTIONAL SHUTDOWN
By: Mindy Lawrence An emotional shutdown is the inability to connect with others on an emotional level. The detachment can be by choice...
Jan 15, 20222 min read
DATE RAPE and Protecting Yourself
Legal Information Institute at Cornell University refers to date rape as the phenomenon where the woman was forced to have sexual...
Jan 14, 20221 min read
SEXUAL ABUSE: 5 Types of Sexual Abuse
by Mindy Lawrence First Orlando Counseling in Orlando, Florida, defines five types of sexual abuse that exist -- verbal, covert, visual,...
Jan 11, 20222 min read
Sexual Abuse: SEXUAL ABUSE AND VIOLENCE
There are around 463,634 victims (age 12 or older) of rape and sexual assault each year in the United States. One in five women has...
Jan 9, 20220 min read
What is Gaslighting?
Definition of "Gaslighting" and a discussion of how it is used as a weapon.
Jan 9, 20221 min read
Information about Gaslighting !
Learning about the concept of gaslighting!
Jan 7, 20222 min read
Toxic People
Joyce Faulkner's books include "In the Shadow of Suribachi," "Windshift," "Vala's Bed," and "Garrison Avenue."
Jan 6, 20221 min read
WORDS HURT
The young girl did everything to please her mother. She picked up around the house, took the clothes off the clothesline, and swept and...
Jan 2, 20229 min read
UNFORGIVABLE
by Joyce Faulkner At first it was just a vibration -- like a distant heartbeat, then the faint smell of smoke. Hedy opened her eyes....
Dec 22, 20212 min read
BETRAYAL AND MENTAL HEALTH
“The act of betraying someone or something or the fact of being betrayed: violation of a person's trust or confidence, of a moral...
Dec 22, 20211 min read
MENTAL HEALTH
We all have a social and mental side. All of them together form our mental health. Mental health is important from the time we are born...
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