We hope you'll waste no time beginning to share your secrets in appropriate settings, with appropriate people .. with trauma trained professionals and/or with fellow survivors.
About Recovery
A primary mission at the National Association of Adult Survivors of Child Abuse is to help abused people who have reached maturity get into recovery. If you are a man or woman who experienced sexual abuse, violence, severe neglect or emotional trauma in your youth, and are still suffering its lasting effects, we want to help you have a happy, healthy, productive life, and meaningful relationships.
We've been there, and our membership includes people who have recovered in any number of ways using one or more of the many resources we recommend on this site.
NAASCA does not promote any specific tools for a 'healing journey'. We recognize there are many options and we help a still-suffering adult survivor of child abuse select whatever combinaton of thing works for them.
Finding the right kind of mental health professional for support in the journey of recovery is crucial. It is beneficial to understand different theories that professionals might utilize and have a clear picture of the type of training they have – and that means being able to translate the letters after their names!
In addition there are many other legitimate paths and tools to consider. Our members have used ministry, self-help groups, 12 step programs, peer-to-peer sharing, life coaches, on-line forums and social media groups. They've employed EMDR, hypnosis, journaling, bio feed back, meditation, body work, yoga, art therapy, animal therapy .. the list goes on and on!
NAASCA has a unique tool with Recovery Groups and Services from around the world. It's among our most poular services, listing all 50 US States, all the Canadian Provinces, and now includes global listings for everywhere English is spoken, world-wide. Included are 'on-line' virtual groups, too.
You can add to our listings by simply writing to usm and if you can't find a local recovery group near to you we suggest you consider Starting Your Own Group. We offer you several possible formats.
We actively advocate for a better understanding of the shear magnitude of the many problems that surround the issue of child abuse in America. A better educated society will be more willing to address these problems and support recovery from them. There seems to be a particular taboo against talking about sexuality, domestic violence and similar "touchy" topics in our country, and significant confusion or reluctance to discuss such issues with our children. We hope we can break through these fears.
About Recovery
A primary mission at the National Association of Adult Survivors of Child Abuse is to help abused people who have reached maturity get into recovery. If you are a man or woman who experienced sexual abuse, violence, severe neglect or emotional trauma in your youth, and are still suffering its lasting effects, we want to help you have a happy, healthy, productive life, and meaningful relationships.
We've been there, and our membership includes people who have recovered in any number of ways using one or more of the many resources we recommend on this site.
NAASCA does not promote any specific tools for a 'healing journey'. We recognize there are many options and we help a still-suffering adult survivor of child abuse select whatever combinaton of thing works for them.
Finding the right kind of mental health professional for support in the journey of recovery is crucial. It is beneficial to understand different theories that professionals might utilize and have a clear picture of the type of training they have – and that means being able to translate the letters after their names!
In addition there are many other legitimate paths and tools to consider. Our members have used ministry, self-help groups, 12 step programs, peer-to-peer sharing, life coaches, on-line forums and social media groups. They've employed EMDR, hypnosis, journaling, bio feed back, meditation, body work, yoga, art therapy, animal therapy .. the list goes on and on!
NAASCA has a unique tool with Recovery Groups and Services from around the world. It's among our most poular services, listing all 50 US States, all the Canadian Provinces, and now includes global listings for everywhere English is spoken, world-wide. Included are 'on-line' virtual groups, too.
You can add to our listings by simply writing to usm and if you can't find a local recovery group near to you we suggest you consider Starting Your Own Group. We offer you several possible formats.
We actively advocate for a better understanding of the shear magnitude of the many problems that surround the issue of child abuse in America. A better educated society will be more willing to address these problems and support recovery from them. There seems to be a particular taboo against talking about sexuality, domestic violence and similar "touchy" topics in our country, and significant confusion or reluctance to discuss such issues with our children. We hope we can break through these fears.