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Components of Resilience: Creativity & Adaptability
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Components of Resilience: Creativity & Adaptability

Components of Resilience: Creativity & Adaptability

By Elizabeth| 2018-04-09T02:03:54-04:00 June 30th, 2016|Categories: By & For Ace Survivors, Coping Strategies, Recovery, Resilience|Tags: abuse, adaptability, anxiety, components of resilience, coping, coping skills, coping strategies, creativity, dissociation, fiction, non-fiction, parental abuse, privacy, privacy violations, processing, ptsd, recovery, resilience, resiliency, trauma, writing|

This is part four of a series of posts dedicated to breaking down components of resilience. The series is an elaboration on a post I made in 2015, continued now as part of the June 2016 Carnival of Aces on Resiliency. In part one of this series, I covered tenacity. In part [...]

Resilience through fiction, or that time I wrote a vampire novel that was secretly about trauma
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Resilience through fiction, or that time I wrote a vampire novel that was secretly about trauma

Resilience through fiction, or that time I wrote a vampire novel that was secretly about trauma

By Queenie| 2018-04-09T02:13:44-04:00 June 21st, 2016|Categories: Coping Strategies, Recovery, Resilience|Tags: coping, ptsd, resilience, self-harm, sexual violence, substance abuse, suicide, trauma, violence|

This post is for the June 2016 Carnival of Aces, which is on the topic of “Resiliency.” Content warnings: discussion of trauma and violence (sexual and not), mentions of substance abuse and suicidality and self-harm, all in the context of talking about a work of fiction Between 2008 and 2011 I [...]