About Sarah Newman, MA, MFA

Sarah Newman is the managing editor and associate publisher of PsychCentral and the founding editor-in-chief of the Poydras Review.

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Articles by Sarah Newman, MA, MFA:

• Putting Aside Our Differences at the Holiday Table

• Boundaries: Why You Say Yes When You Really Mean No

• 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