6 Telling the story saves others.
When something bad happens, it is natural to want to warn others, so that they can avoid it. This is a good intention. It is definitely helpful to let people know some practical advise, to protect their drinks from being spiked, avoid certain dating procedures or apps...
5 Telling the world about how terrible the sexual abuse was helps with healing
While it’s true that you may gain some relief initially in telling others what happened to you and also expose you deep emotional wounds, this is not the answer to real self-healing. There are several level of healing that need to take place. Telling the story is good...
4 Sexual Abuse ruins your ability to have good relationships.
Sexual Abuse ruins your ability to have good relationships. Many sexual abuse survivors say that they really struggle to trust men. This leads them to avoid intimate relationships, become invisible, sabotage relationships in the belief it won’t work out anyway or...
3 ‘Telling the story is necessary for healing’
While there is such a lot of stigma and shame involved in letting people know you were sexually assaulted, due to worries about judgement and what people might think, it requires a lot to speak up on the matter. Being able to speak about it, has a place, especially if...
2 ‘The best you can do is become a survivor’.
Being a victim has a stigma attached to it that no one wants to carry. In a culture and medical model that has no belief or effective therapeutic modalities to recovery, the deep conflicts left by sexual assault, in the mind and body of the person involved, the only...
1‘You can’t recover from sexual abuse’.
The traditional approach which includes the medical model in Australia and in other parts of the world, is that recovery from sexual abuse is not possible. The medical model is largely influenced by their belief that once the brain or mind is broken, it can’t be fully...
19 Misconceptions about Sexual Abuse
You can’t recover. The best you can do is become a survivor. It ruins your ability to engage in good relationships. Telling the story helps with the symptoms. Telling the world about how terrible it is helps with the symptoms. Telling the story saves others. ...
Is Sexual Abuse a life sentence? Yildiz Sethi
Sexual abuse trauma is a very deep trauma that may last long after the incident. I am giving a presentation for those in the field of counselling, hypnotherapy, social work or psychotherapy or those are interested in entering this field, on solutions. This will...
Moving On
Moving on Yildiz Sethi Change is a constant force that operates relentlessly. It is so much part of our lives that we often don’t notice its presence. The problem is, our nature is innately inquisitive and primed with an impulse for new experiences that inevitably...
Australation Systemic Constellation Intensive
I am sending you a note from Jonine about the Constellation Intensive of which I am involved. I have been part of organizing the Australasian Constellation Intensive - the biggest systemic constellations event in the southern hemisphere, which attracts people from...