Capulet

Welcome to After Silence, @Rocinante - so sorry for the circumstances that have led you to our community, but am glad you're here, all the same. This is a truly supportive place to be and the connections to be made here are truly healing. ❤️ Wishing you all the best! - Cap

Hello @Lady Anonymous and welcome to After Silence!!!! So glad you are here and will consider us to be a welcoming and safe space to start communicating with other survivors! While I'm sorry you have reason to be a part of our community, I'm happy to have you on board and for the opportunity to walk alongside you in healing and solidarity. Wishing you all the best - strength and positivity always. - Cap

Hello @Luna Girl and welcome to After Silence. This is a great place to connect and to vent, if needed. We have a space for just about everything. If you need anything, don't hesitate to drop me a line. Wishing you all the best on your healing journey! - Capulet

Hi @sgs and welcome to After Silence!!! I'm a little late to the party but I'm glad to see you're settling in nicely. I'm so sorry to learn of the circumstances that have led you to our community but I'm truly pleased to see you already getting loads of support! I support you. Take good care of yourself! - Cap

Thank you, friend!!! I haven't been icing anything. There is minimal swelling and my bruises are just warm to the touch. Touches are painful, so I'm just taking it easy. Ironic, isn't it, that they were caused by ice! 😄 This'll be one of my funny, but not funny moments that I look back on once I'm all healed up! Big hugs right back atcha, Finchy!!!

Hi, all! I just wanted to pass by with a quick (maybe?) update, for I know that I have been extremely neglectful to my blog lately. I've been around on the site, though - that is unchanging. Even so, I don't like feeling so disconnected from my blog. It's always been a place I would come to write things out and process - a place to share things I've had on my mind, a place to gain feedback and support. I confess that lately, I've not known what to say about anything, so in turn, I've not done much writing. That feels odd to me, to say the least - for in my childhood and teenage year

Hello @Xenea and welcome to After Silence. I'm sorry to learn of the circumstances that have brought you to our community but I am glad you are here and are among supporters. Many are in the very same boat and it's a comforting feeling to know you are not alone with these feelings, questions, doubts, suspicions....the list is long for us survivors, ain't it? While nobody can tell you for sure what happened, I do believe that you feel a certain way for a reason. I too, do not have concrete confirmation of my childhood experience with sexual abuse, but there had been a nagging feel

Hello and welcome!! You are definitely among friends here. I am hopeful that you find the support and clarity you seek! Best wishes, - Capulet

Welcome, @Xenaspice, to After Silence!! I hope that being here brings you peace, comfort and healing!! My best wishes, - Capulet

I'm happy to pin it! I will need the assistance of a male member to pin it in the place most commonly frequented by male members. I will send @markeslilja a PM on that. Additionally, we can move/pin this board into our Public: Resources forum so that any male survivors who may be looking for resources can easily locate it there. I'll take care of that, now. Thank you for this! - Cap

😊 Awwww, shucks!!!! Happy to help. Surprisingly very easy to figure out!

@mini.finch - Went in and tweaked. Thy is done. 😉 Let me know if it works, now! ❤️

I am hoping someone who has used such coding (and I know I've seen it!) will let us know! 😉

Hello! I've actually seen this done before....a member will self-hide their own post contents and the content is viewable if the reader clicks on it to expand it. I'm not sure that's the correct code, though - I have tried it and got no prompt to 'click to reveal.' If anyone knows the right way to do this, I hope they'll let us know! I agree it's a good feature to have here, especially if adding a response to an initial post that doesn't have trigger warnings. Thanks for reaching out! Hope you're well, @markeslilja!! - Cap

Welcome to After Silence, @LightintheDark - congratulations on your realization that you are ready to take your healing to the next step/level! I am hopeful that being here among those who can relate is comforting and that you find the support you seek. Best wishes, - Capulet

Welcome, @WolfMoon, to the community! Looking forward to getting to know you. Best wishes, - Capulet

Welcome, @Helianthus - I am sorry you have reason to be here, but am glad you are finally among those who understand and are ready to provide some support. I absolutely love sunflowers and sunsets, and so I adore your photo. Welcome to the community. Looking forward to getting to know you! - Cap

Hello, @Faithish and welcome to After Silence. I, too, am very awkward at times. Socially awkward is an accurate assessment. 😉 Thankfully, online, I can be a little less awkward, knowing that there is still a level of anonymity. I also find it very difficult to open up to those I don't know very well (and even with those I DO know well!) but being here is a good way to start (or continue) your healing process by forming connections with people who can truly relate to sexual trauma. I'm very sorry that is what has brought you here, but hope that being here helps bring you some p

Welcome to After Silence, @theydoexist. I'm so sorry to learn what has brought you here, but hope that being involved with our community will enable you to form connections and to experience peace, comfort and healing. Take gentle care of yourself. Best wishes, - Capulet

Welcome, Green! I am so sorry to learn about what has brought you here. It is my sincerest hope that you will find yourself surrounded by kind, supportive people who can relate and that being here will provide some much-needed comfort. You'll soon hear from a member of the Newbie Support Team with helpful information on how to navigate AS, but until then, know I am just a holler away if you need anything. Best wishes, - Capulet

Hello @Stephanief and welcome to After Silence!!! You will soon hear from a member of the Newbie Support Team with some helpful information on how to navigate the site. From what I can see, you're doing wonderfully already! I'm sorry to learn of what has brought you here and that you have had a bad experience following your Reiki session six months ago. I've never tried Reiki but was told that it can have powerful effects. Excellent job on taking steps to help yourself!! That's huge - I hope you are proud of yourself. Again - welcome. I am here if you have any questi

Welcome to After Silence, @Polkadots and @Stephanief!!!! You'll both hear soon from a member of the Newbie Support Team. Until then, I'm happy to be the first one to say hello! 😉 I am very sorry you feel alone and misunderstood, @Polkadots - I can relate to that, as well. It's not an easy feeling to shake, especially when it comes to trauma. I do hope that being here will bring you peace, comfort and healing - you definitely are not alone, here. Many are in the same boat. Please feel free to browse and look around - I'm just a holler away if you need anything. Bes

Hi Steve, Unfortunately, our software is not compatible with the old-style chat room. I remember it from back in the day, and it was very simple and easy to use. The chat client we used a couple years back worked but was not without glitches and problems - some members couldn't get in, our mods didn't have the needed controls, and we were paying WAY too much money for a service that never worked properly - so we had to cut them loose. Any alternative chat client would be extremely expensive to add on, and as is, our maintenance and server fees are becoming difficult to keep up with, fo