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...
