Self-care tips after experiencing a cyber attack or online harassment

World Pulse has curated these resources and tips for caring for yourself following traumatic online experiences including cyber attacks, online harassment, cyber stalking, and other acts of digital violence.

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Updated 2 years ago

Cyber Sexual Assault Support

This website features survivor-sourced resources that are useful for navigating the aftermath of cyber violence. These resources are organized by categories to help you move through the recovery process. You will find survivor stories; mental health resources; guidance for content removal to help you take down content on various platforms; as well as tips for advocating and educating others; organizing in your community; and supporting other survivors, if you choose to take that step.

The site was created by Dr. Spring Cooper, a professor at CUNY. Find out more on their website: https://csasupport.commons.gc.cuny.edu/

Self-Care Workbook by Cyberwomen

This online, downloadable workbook guides you through the following areas of self-care exercises and reflections:

Cyberwomen is a digital security curriculum with a holistic and gender perspective, aimed at offering trainers with tools to provide in-person learning experiences to human rights defenders and journalists working in high-risk environments.

Self-Care for People Experiencing Harassment

This guide from HeartMob is available in Arabic, Burmese, French, Spanish, and Indonesian.

It includes many tips for self care after experiencing online harassment, including how to ask for help; how to enjoy the offline world; and tips for meditation and breathing exercises, as well as ways to cultivate resilience.

Download the guide and read through the resources here.

Self Care for Sustainability and Impact Workbook

Produced by Move to End Violence, a program of the NoVo Foundation, this workbook developed by Norma Wong guides readers through steps to think about the elements, values, and principles of self care. Readers can fill in their own self-care plan as well as an organization self-care plan, including ample space for additional notes.

Download the workbook here.

#SustainingCommunity Video Series

This video series about self care and sustaining community is a collaboration between the Womxn Project, the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC), SisterSong: National Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, the Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights (COLOR), and a robust set of partners, activists, and health professionals across the country.

Watch the video series here.

Student's Guide to Radical Healing

From the Care Center, the Student's Guide to Radical Healing zine gives information on trauma and offers an introduction to different healing modalities and tools, as well as how to access them.

Download the guide here.

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