Trauma & Recovery Archives - Mitigating Dharma

C page Confidentiality Merchasin If you are a survivor, whether or not

March 7, 2026

[I]f you are a survivor, whether or not you choose to pursue a legal case, sit in your own truth and tell your own story when you are ready. Know...

E page Discourse Peterson In order to address our safety

March 1, 2026

In order to address our safety fully, professionals have to draw from a deeper well to determine the priorities and parameters between us and them. Indeed, within the spirit of...

R page Recognize Peterson

February 27, 2026

Detecting a boundary violation is difficult because it is a process rather than a single event. It grows like a cancer beneath the surface of the relationship’s legitimate purpose and...

A page Sexual Abuse A Langenberg Sexual Violation

February 20, 2026

‘ Sexual Violation’: “to violate means to infringe upon someone, to transgress and can also mean to rupture or to break. Violations can happen with stealth, with manipulation…to anyone who...

C page Comm of CARE Pelicot So many women gave me

February 19, 2026

[So many women] gave me incredible strength….And I thanked them for it…I [also] received thousands of letters from all over the world…and [these women] thanked me for talking about [my...

C page Consequences Resmaa When people experience

February 19, 2026

When people experience repeated trauma, abuse, or high levels of stress for long stretches of time, a variety of stress hormones get secreted into their bloodstreams…[W]hen the levels of these...

A page Agency Gisele P First of all, don’t lose

February 17, 2026

First of all, don’t lose your self-confidence. Listen to that voice that takes you in the right direction. I had doubts, everybody has doubts, I had doubts at times. But...

A page Allies Carol As a legal matter, consent

February 11, 2026

As a legal matter, consent is not a possibility in those kinds of situations…So we began doing [legal work on] sexual assaults in cult-like high demand communities, and we started...

C page Consent Merchasin Consent there really is this need, a requirement

February 10, 2026

There really is this need, a requirement, that in order to have consent you need to have full information. You also need to be able to say ‘no’ without...

A page Abuse McBride One of the most damning

February 9, 2026

One of the most damning and destructive parts of spiritual trauma is the way that the diminishment of humanness is handed down as spiritual maturity. And it’s actually more a...