by Helen Papadopoulos | Jun 8, 2020 | diy therapy, education, Healing Sexual Abuse, philosophy, self-help skills
This post contains an excerpt from my autobiography where I describe the trust issues that resulted from being sexually abused as a child. Many people have such issues irrespective of whether or not they have experienced this type of abuse. There is nothing graphic in...
by Helen Papadopoulos | Mar 16, 2020 | education, Healing Sexual Abuse, philosophy, self-help skills, The Real New Age
Victim-blaming and shaming is rife in New Age circles. In this post, I will outline three of the most popular New Age mantras (robotically repeated statements) that do this to victims whilst simultaneously ignoring, or minimizing the actions of perpetrators....
by Helen Papadopoulos | Mar 16, 2020 | Healing Sexual Abuse, philosophy
Anything worthwhile is going to cost you something – usually more than one thing (e.g. money, time, energy, emotional turmoil, and so on). When delving deep into something painful, the pain itself is the heftiest price that needs to be paid. The price is commensurate...
by Helen Papadopoulos | Jan 30, 2020 | education, Healing Sexual Abuse, philosophy, self-help skills, The Real New Age
Karma is the Eastern term for the spiritual law that may also be referred to as Cosmic Justice, God’s Justice, or Natural Law. True Law is inextricably linked to Morality and neither have anything to do with (hu)man-made laws, or ‘morals’ that change with the...
by Helen Papadopoulos | Sep 15, 2019 | Healing Sexual Abuse, self-help skills
This post is dedicated to survivors of ALL forms of abuse who still have trouble asserting themselves as a result of being victimized. In a nutshell: anger-aggressiveness is necessary when setting rock solid boundaries – the relationship between them is...
by Helen Papadopoulos | Sep 5, 2019 | Healing Sexual Abuse, philosophy, self-help skills
I am a great believer in art as a profound form of therapy that far surpasses counseling and other types of conventional therapy. The focus will be on various art forms created by others that helped me heal and my personal creative outlet – writing. These...
