About Sarah Newman, MA

Sarah Newman is the managing editor and associate publisher at PsychCentral. She is the founding editor-in-chief of the Poydras Review. She received her MA in psychology from the New School for Social Research and an MFA in writing from CCNY. She merely blogs her opinion. She does not intend her words to be a replacement for qualified mental health treatment.

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Articles by Sarah Newman, MA:

• What Tig Notaro’s New Show Gets Right about Child Sexual Abuse

• Childhood Trauma: Focus on Validating Feelings

• A Letter to My Body After Surgery

• Child Sexual Abuse: Don’t Hide Your Head in the Sand

• How to Let Joy Have a Little More Control Over Your Life

• Embracing Optimism Even When Life Seems Unfair

• Childhood Trauma: Overcoming the Hurt of Invalidation

• The Importance of Getting Comfortable with Discomfort

• How to Keep an Open Mind — Even During an Election Year

• 4 Ways to Validate Yourself

• Recovering from Childhood Abuse: The Past Keeps Getting Clearer

• How to Bring More Laughter into Your Life

• Can You Hear Compliments? How to Let Praise into Your Life

• How Media Shapes Our View of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

• The Beauty of Intentional Forgetting

• How Quitting Facebook Helped My Mental Health

• How to Find Power in Silence

• Why the Selfish People in Your Life Aren’t Going Away

• Spanking: 50 Years of Research Shows How Detrimental It Is

• The Woman Card: Accepted Pretty Much Nowhere

• What You Really Lose When You Lose Perspective

• Love Thy Boundaries

• 5 Ways to Accept Gratitude Fully

• Can You Wrap Your Head Around Delusional Thinking?

• Child Abuse Survivors, Victims Need You to Talk About It

• Don’t Let Defensiveness Stand in the Way of Personal Growth

• Sneaky Rumination: Replaying Conversations in My Head

• When a Trauma History Feels Like Unlimited Limitations

• 4 Things I Learned in Trauma Group Therapy

• Responsibility Is a Blessing, Not a Curse

• Are You Wasting Your Time Feeding Negativity?

• How to Combat Harmful Sarcasm and Negativity

• How Highly Sensitive People Can Shield Themselves from Negativity

• Keeping a Balanced Body After Abuse

• This Simple Task Could Make You More Resilient

• What Dogs Can Teach Us about Living in the Moment

• Finding the Illusive Optimism Hidden Inside Us All

• Child Abuse Survivors: The Fear of Having Children

• How to Put a Stop to Generations of Negative Thinking

• Can You Live with a Judgmental Therapist?

• A Holiday Guide for Abuse Survivors

• Tapping into Your Resilience After Abuse

• How to Be Selfish

• You Have Permission to Cut Off Your Abuser

• Tell Your Therapist About the Abuse

• Trauma Survivors Aren’t Disgusting

• Memory Isn’t Important to Recover from Trauma

• Trusting Your Gut When It Goes Against Everything You’ve Been Taught

• Seeing More Clearly After Trauma and Denial

• It’s Okay to Be Angry, Unless You’re a Woman