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 | 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...