Discover practical and compassionate tools for incest healing: exercises, psychoeducation strategies, dissociation guidelines, ethical somatic practices, referrals to specialists, and key research and literature recommendations.
V. Allies & Resources
Transforming the Cultural, Legal, and Interpersonal Structures that Allow Incest Abuse to Flourish
This article examines the systemic factors that enable incest and harm survivors. It covers legal and justice reform, the dangers of mandated reporting, cultural narrative change, advocacy and policy work, community education, and holding institutions accountable.
Trauma‑Informed Care for Incest Survivors
This article guides clinicians through the competencies required to support incest survivors. It covers therapist literacy, misdiagnosis prevention, ethics, contraindications, best practices, incest‑specific considerations, countertransference, role confusion, and vicarious trauma.
Building Safe and Supportive Relationships with Incest Survivors
This article explores how partners of incest survivors can provide safe support without becoming the therapist. It covers education, limits of a partner’s role, burnout, self‑care, therapy, and building relational safety.
The Networks of Support
Healing from incest requires more than individual effort; it calls for attuned partners, competent clinicians, and systemic change. This article explores how allies can support survivors without reenacting harm and how cultural and institutional reforms can protect children and foster healing.
Book Review: The Right Brain and the Origin of Human Nature by Allan Schore
A Chapter-by-Chapter Summary of the Book Below is a full-book, chapter-by-chapter summary. The core concepts are distilled, and along with their direct applications for incest trauma, its long-term effects, why it’s so hard to heal, and what healing actually requires. Trauma deserves reverence. Neuroscience deserves clarity. The text establishes one central thesis: Human nature originates in the unconscious, right-brain-dominant relational processes formed in early attachment. These processes shape stress regulation, emotional development, personality, trauma vulnerability, and the…
The Genius of Dr. Allan Schore
Dr. Allan Schore work bridges neuroscience, attachment theory, and psychoanalysis, helping us see how early relational trauma literally wires the brain for survival, and how, through safe connection, it can rewire for healing.
What Ellert Nijenhuis Taught Us About Dissociation and the Incest Survivor’s Journey Home
Understanding The Haunted Self When the Body Becomes the Keeper of Secrets There are some wounds so deep they don’t bleed. Yet, they still split us into pieces. For many survivors of incest, that split becomes the quiet architecture of their entire being. On the surface, life may look functional, careers built, families raised, smiles practiced to perfection. But underneath? There’s a house divided. A body that flinches at softness. A heart that doesn’t quite trust the hands that reach for it. A mind that forgets, not because it wants to, but because remembering would mean reliving the…
The Long-Term Effects of Childhood Sexual Abuse: Counseling Implications – Article Review
Common long-term effects such as depression, anxiety, shame, dissociation, eating disorders, sexual dysfunction, and difficulty forming intimate relationships. CSA consistently disrupts core aspects of identity, trust, and safety.
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