Sexual assault work is hard!
But what makes it hard isn’t what people might think. I can listen to people’s stories and because there’s usually enough inspiring stuff in there as well, I actually feel priveleged. What’s hard is the attitudes of other people. It’s bad enough peoeple who have been abused have to go throug the abuse but then when peoeple around them say the most unhelpful things when they share some of their story, it really depresses me. And today I am really depressed and upset because I’m hearing those things from people who really should know better. Adults who sexually abuse children are committing a terrible crime with wide reaching consequences. If people who have been abused have the courage to report those crimes or confront the people who did it to them they shoulld be supported, not told they need to forgive and get over it or told that they are not being fair on the perpetrator and their family. I am feeling very cross today because people I know who I thought would know better have been saying these things to one of my clients! Any way, I have to get over it and remind myself that many people feel this way and I shouldn’t be surprised.
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Well, tonight is perhaps the first night in months that there’s just me in the house. Even Keith is out - gone to choir practice. So I’ve got my glass of wine and my cheese and olives and a couple of home grown egg tomatoes and here I am in blog world again. Two nights ago there were 14 of us in the house. Makes sharing the one bathroom pretty interesting! Fortunately most people’s bladders aren’t like mine. Any way, it’s certainly the time to be here in the centre. The weather is great - cool to warm days and cold nights with fires, and the mossies and flies have pretty much knocked off. So we’ve had plenty of visitors. And the day 10 people arrived from Perth (about 2 weeks ago) the builders decided to turn up and actually start working on the cabin that should have been built before they all came. Any way, we’ve survived!! Next influx will be my family all coming up for my Dad’s 80th birthday which will be fun. After that we will be doing our desert journey. This means going with our aboriginal neighbour out to his country for a week with a bunch of people. We still have a few places for this so if anyone would like to come on a journey with us from 16th - 23rd August , let us know. It’s on the spiritjourneys.com website. Last year we had a pretty special time doing this.
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