by Sandra Hamilton | Sep 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
As I look back on this year, I realize that I’ve hit several of my goals almost without thinking about them. Each year around the time of my birthday, I sit and look at what I’ve achieved for the year and plan my year forward. Another way of saying this is, each year...
by Sandra Hamilton | Oct 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
One of the side effects, if it can be called that, of sexual abuse – especially rape, is a questioning of self worth, is a feeling of being dirty. I would like to invite us to take a minute and look at this. How has this physical violation of your body affected...
by Sandra Hamilton | Oct 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
This is the ninth month of the year. Today, I met with my 17th suicide client for the year. Most of these have been young people (Male) who feel unwanted, abandoned, unworthy, or/and that the world would be better off without them. But this is simply not true. You are...
by Sandra Hamilton | Jan 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
Those of us who have been subjected to sexual trauma often struggle with self-sabotage. It is insidious. It is silent. We are not even aware that we are sabotaging ourselves. We want to be productive. We want to get ahead. We study all kinds of courses. We qualify, in...
by Sandra Hamilton | Jan 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
If you’re anything like me, you often think of grandiose projects that seem so simple to do and end so beautifully – in your mind. But, once you start the project, you discover all the challenges and obstacles that you never envisaged along the way. Here are a few...
by Sandra Hamilton | Dec 19, 2021 | Uncategorized
What is your dream? Or as one person told me at a workshop I lead the other day, “I DO NOT DREAM.” She said it as if dreaming was for losers. But we all dream, consciously or unconsciously, we all dream. In the same way, we all make a decision whether to follow...
by Sandra Hamilton | Nov 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
When you have been sexually assaulted, a wound – opens. It is deep, dark, it is terrible. It affects you mentally, spiritually and emotionally. During the 1980s, the topic of childhood sexual abuse reached a zenith in the media, and we all heard the horrifying...
by Sandra Hamilton | Oct 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
Are you one of those people saying, ‘the best is yet to come’ or are you just waiting, dying in fact for good things to happen in your life? Yes? Ok then, what is your attitude surrounding this? Are you waiting for the best things to happen or are you going out there...
by Sandra Hamilton | Sep 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
Koffee, the young Jamaican singer, says “Blessing fall by my right hand” and goes on to enunciate some of her struggles while acknowledging that she could not have overcome without, “di friends weh tek off heavy load” in other words, the persons who sustained her,...
by Sandra Hamilton | Sep 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
Everyone has felt some shame at some point in their life. Shame causes us to feel different, to feel judged. The wound of sexual abuse intensifies this shame and we begin to wonder if something is wrong with us. It can make us afraid to talk to the very people whom we...
