How Far Should Compassion Go—Even Toward the Abusive?
CANADA, JUL 19 – Experts examine how unconditional compassion can help individuals heal but also acknowledge the risks when extending empathy toward those who cause harm.
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The Trouble with Lived Experience: When Peer Support Compounds Trauma by Denying Abuse
A few years ago, before I became a therapist, I entered therapy for the first time. I had never taken psychiatric medication, never been diagnosed, and had never seen myself through a clinical lens. Although I had experienced a difficult and abusive childhood in Somalia, I came to understand that in my culture, trauma and childhood are not spoken about in the same psychological terms used in the West. Through lived experience and years of making…
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