Category Archives: Support
Moving Past Sexual Abuse Support Group
The next sexual abuse survivor support group with the focus on moving past sexual abuse and creating a life worth living will start on: Thursday, 28th of July 2011, 7PM – 9 PM Raeburn House, Takapuna The group runs for 8 weeks - there is space for 2 more people to join. In the past the cost has …
Survivor Support Groups Term II/2011
The new dates for the Sexual Abuse Survivor Support Groups at Raeburn House are finalised. There are still a few spaces left for both groups. It is advisable that participants are in some form of counselling so that any critical issues that might be triggered by group conversations can be worked through appropriately. People should …
Coping When Disaster Strikes
A terrifying disaster like the Christchurch Earthquake has a huge impact on people. We are confronted with the fragility of life, with the unpredictability of our physical safety on this planet, and with our inability to protect ourselves and loved ones from such tragedies. Trauma people may have experienced earlier in their lives often gets …
Goodbye Dear Jacqui
The unthinkable has happened! A very much loved and admired member of our support group has cruelly been robbed of a promising future, has been torn away from her family and her friends. Has been torn away from us. Her commitment to healing the past and embracing all the different parts of herself was …
ACC: The Modern Brothers Grimm
Has anyone seen today's article in the New Zealand Herald about ACC failing to help most sexual abuse survivors? Follow the link to read the whole thing – or get the paper out, it's on page 4. It mentions that we are having the survivor summit this coming Sunday, which is a good thing! It's …
ACC: The Modern Brothers Grimm
Has anyone seen today's article in the New Zealand Herald about ACC failing to help most sexual abuse survivors? Follow the link to read the whole thing – or get the paper out, it's on page 4. It mentions that we are having the survivor summit this coming Sunday, which is a good thing! It's …
Survivors Experience with the new ACC Pathway
Survivors have spoken out about their experiences with the new clinical pathway introduced by ACC in October 2009. We are still collecting responses, so if you haven't taken the survey yet, go to the survey page and fill it out. The results from this survey will be presented to the Review Panel appointed by the Minister …
Do you have to hurt to heal?
Someone has told me yesterday how hard it is to see other people hurt. That on top of your own struggle with hurting, hoping and intermittently wanting to give up, is a roller coaster that has many survivors walking along a thin line between surviving and not surviving. Everyone has heard the proverb "It has to get …
Sexual Abuse Survivor’s Support Group
It's a new year and for those who live in the Auckland/North Shore region, Raeburn House is running the support group 'Moving Past Sexual Abuse" again for this year. Here are the details: When: Thursdays, 8 weeks, starts 11 FebruaryTime: 7:00pm – 9:00pmTotal Cost: $45Facilitator: Gudrun Frerichs This group creates a safe community of women …
How to support your friends and family who are traumatised
In the wake of drastic cuts of funding for survivors of childhood sexual abuse, my colleage Graz Amber has prepared a pamphlet for "HOW TO HELP" that might come in handy when people can't get the services they urgently need and might have come to rely on. Graz was so kind to allow this pamphlet …
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