Robin Atkins

LMHC specializing in reproductive mental health. Politically homeless. Proponent of bodily integrity. Purveyor of vintage and antique lovelies.

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Perhaps the most disturbing cultural trend I have seen in the last 5 years is the destruction of childhood innocence in an attempt to validate adults.

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@KaeleyT I have been feeling this as well. It seems as if Christians are consistently responding to culture, rather than creating culture.

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@Thephoobster There is something disturbing about a month dedicated to pride.

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My job as a therapist is not to affirm anyone's lived experience or identity.

Attempts by other therapists to pressure me into doing so is professional coercion in an attempt to force codependency.

My job is to help patients know their own understanding of themselves better, discern how they want their life to be different, identify what is in their control to achieve that difference, and the risks and benefits of their options.

My opinion about their lived experience, if I even have one, is completely irrelevant.

My opinion about what is or is not mentally healthy is relevant.

It is my professional opinion that entering into a codependent relationship with a patient is not only mentally unhealthy, but a form of countertransference that entrenches the patient in maladaption.

Thus, it is my duty to refuse to allow a patient to shift the source of their sense of self and/or identity onto me.

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Twitter Confession: Vulnerability, especially when it is messy, is the only way forward.

Notice me...Take my hand https://t.co/B734D4qldu

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Some nights, the pain is so deep I can't breath. Don't misunderstand me. I have been forgiven. Christ set me free. The grief doesn't die, though. My son would be 25 this year.

"I make believe
That you are here
It's the only way
That I see clear...
What have I done
You seem to move uneasy...
My weakness caused you pain
And this song's my sorry"

There were many reasons Brittney Spears was not ok. There were many reasons I was not ok in my early 20s. For both Brittney and I, abortion is one of them.

Read the comments under the video, if you care to know, how women are wounded by a society that tells them they can't/shouldn't be mothers because of...

https://t.co/CNmpIxWfRy

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Mental Health Reminder of the Day

If you cannot find compassion for the mistakes of others, you are most certainly overlooking some of your own.

#MHRoD

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The vast majority of violence outside of war and self-defense is committed from a place of deep personal weakness. The pursuit of power often flows from feelings of inferiority and self-doubt.

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Our story begins in a quaint suburban neighborhood in the outskirts of a midsized Midwestern city. Is it meet cute...or meet your maker?
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Incorrect. You chose to ignore my actual points. You chose to further misrepresent my position. You chose to pretend that intention has nothing to do with why someone would or would not do something in order to pretend your projectiin of them is accurate. You are being repeatedly deceitful and bearing false witness against others.

We are not in agreement because I, unlike you, refuse to bear false witness and project false intentions upon others.

I do agree with your sentiment about no longer wanting any discussion with you. I will not follow that up with emojis of faux intimacy.

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Women who regret their abortions, like I do, don't post about abortion regret for sympathy. It is presumptive and insulting you would suggest we do. We post about abortion regret for 3 reasons:

A) So others who feel the same have a safe person with whom they can talk about it (you know, to actually help those who want to confess, be forgiven, and find redemption).

B) As a wake up call to those who believe the lie that no woman is ever hurt by abortion.

C) To restore dignity to and honor our child, whose death was brought by our actions, by acknowledging their worth and taking ownership of the reality of our choice.

I don't want your sympathy or pity. You clearly don't have anything to offer me that is from God. I will be praying for you, though. Self-righteousness is far more enslaving than confession. Christ has already set me free.

[Lizzie Marbach @LizzieMarbach]

“Rape regret is real”

See how silly that sounds? We would never think of making a post like this to sympathize with men who feel bad after assaulting a woman.

We would never do this for any other murder situation or heinous crime.

Of course people regret murdering the children.

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@AbolitionWomen @LiveAction This is actually pretty gross. You have chosen to ignore my actual statements and misrepresent me in order to what...feign winning an argument? If that is what makes you feel better about yourself...

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Your forst statement is either an Old Testament or secular point of view. It fails to take into account the Cross.

Your second statement is entirely a secular point of view. Scripture is pretty clear about the consequences of lying...something about millstones...

God isn't sidestepping anything. He is revealing where pride corrupts faith. He is condeming all sin equally. This is why none of us can claim to be "a better person" than the another. We are all equally sinners in need of His grace.

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We can agree there is controversy around whether she was Mary Magdalene. That isn't the point.

Correct, we don't know why she was in that position. So, let's pretend it is for the worst possible reason. She just loved sinning. It was her favorite. Even in that scenario, Jesus chose grace and mercy rather than vilification and condemnation.

However, it is entirely possible that she felt she had no other choice for her survival, given the common circumstances of that time. The circumstances of a woman being surrpinded by men attemtping to stone HER to death for a sin a man engaged in reveals the coercion. It is entrapment set up by a patriarchal system.

Jesus, knowing the full circumstances, chose grace and mercy not vilification and condemnation, and she hadn't even stated any regret at that point. This is the key. Jesus didn't desire vengeance or retribution. He desired freedom through grace and mercy.

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@wife2sirhusband @danae_hudlow Why was she in that position? Why did she do it?

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@wife2sirhusband @danae_hudlow Again, it has everything to do with coercion. Why was Mary in that situation to begin with?

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Implying it is wrong to compare them is the opposite of comparing them. Thus, I would not be makong any statement about which is worse. In God's eyes, all sins are equally abhorrent. Comparisons of perpetrators or victims sidesteps the actual issue and places the focus on a red herring: who is the worse or more harmed human being. There is simply no need to do that. All victims, even victims of their own choices, are worthy of compassion. Offering compassion isn't a failure to apply accountability. The 2 coexist quite well.

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@wife2sirhusband @danae_hudlow It has everything to do with coercion. And I didn't cherry pick anything. I provided an example of an overall theological argument. Did Jesus choose to rescue her from persecution or not?

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I think you are failing to understand my point from the beginning. My point is that Lizzie is using a false dichotomy to villianize women and is presenting them in a deceitful and malicious way.

If I am understanding you correctly, you are doubling down on that being a valid strategy for combating abortion? Is that accurate?

Because the point you seem to think you are making is not a point, it is a projection of intent that is inaccurate.

Live Action would not make a post about rape regret because of the following reasons:

A) Rape is not the focus of Live Action, other than to ppint out how abortion is used to cover up the crime of rape.

B) Rape and abortion are not at all the same situation. The fact they wouldn't make the post doesn't prove anything about the culpability of women who have abortions. That is a red herring. It is because the two aren't analogous at all.

C) We don't need posts about rape regret because culturally we already overwhelmingly agree rape is bad.

I would go a step further and say that anyone willing to post a personal account of regreting being a rapist would be doing the world a service by publicly confessing the harm they have caused, showing accountability, and providing an example of repentance. That isn't a cry for sympathy. That is participating in the practice of confession, repentance, and forgiveness. We should NEVER vilify that. It is far too rare as it is.

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@wife2sirhusband Where did I say that?

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I am not going to offer you a cherry picked scripture. I am going to provide you a theological argument.

I would argue that Scripture, as a whole, supports the idea that anyone who lies using ommision or commision, threatens, or withholds available assistance is involved in the act of coercion. This often happens on a culturally level, not just a personal one.

In particular, I look at the example of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. Regardless of whatever reason people think she was almost stoned, Jesus chose to step in and save her prior to any acknowledgement of sin on her part. While he did tell her to "Go and sin no more", he did so in private, within relationship, not publicly. The context around this scenario is one on which Mary was being persecuted for a situation she was culturally coerced into, with only women being held accountable for the cultural dynamic. Jesus reveales the cultural hypocrisy and rescued her. He did NOT publicly condemn her or villianize her.

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It is a dalse dichotomy.

Rape is illegal in all 50 states. Over 80% of the population disagrees with rape being legal. Rape involves one person invading abother persons body.

Abortion is legal in the majority of states. Approximately 50% of the population thinks it should be legal. Abortion involves one person ejecting another person from their body with deadly intent.

They are no where near the same scenario.

Lizzie's is a narrative to villianize women, not a narrative to end abortion.