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My Mental Health Toolkit: Thought Examining
The therapy I love to hate. PLEASE NOTE: This is an essay about my own personal experiences and the tools and strategies I used to heal...
martelkarin
Aug 8, 20239 min read
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My Mental Health Toolkit: Reimagining Traumatic and Non-Traumatic Memories
My Mental Health Toolkit: Reimagining Traumatic and Non-Traumatic Memories
martelkarin
Jan 30, 202310 min read
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My Mental Health Toolkit: Start with Self-Compassion
If I had to choose a place to start healing from a mental health injury or building mental health resilience, I'd choose self-compassion...
martelkarin
Dec 18, 20227 min read
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Shop Class Hall Pass Chapter One
I'd meant to cancel the appointment with my therapist, Val, because I'd been feeling much better.
martelkarin
Nov 21, 20221 min read
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A Sexual Assault by Any Other Name
If someone had asked me if I’d ever been sexually assaulted, I would have said no. If they had asked me if I had been groped, I would...
martelkarin
Oct 6, 20227 min read
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Other People Have It Worse
Other people have it worse is a pyramid scheme that keeps people from getting the help they deserve. “You know, Karin, other people have...
martelkarin
Oct 4, 20229 min read
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Why Did You?
For victims of sexual assault there is a difference between behaving in a way that doesn’t make sense to other people and doing something...
martelkarin
Oct 4, 20229 min read
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