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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 [...]

When Your Rapist is Your Girlfriend
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When Your Rapist is Your Girlfriend

When Your Rapist is Your Girlfriend

By Guest Post| 2018-04-09T23:55:39-04:00 May 24th, 2016|Categories: Personal Narratives, Sharing|Tags: acephobia, compulsory sexuality, dissociation, heteronormativity, intimate partner rape, LGB ace survivors, model rape survivor, rape, stone|

The thing that is always going to kill me about what happened to me is that I did everything “right.”