Custody Court Crisis: Trauma, the brain, the courts, and the problems
Learn about trauma, your brain on trauma, the relationship between custody courts and trauma, and what we can do about it.
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Christmas Present
How many Christmas presents have you bought this year? How many have you received? The best present we can give to anyone who has been abused is presence.
What helps kids exposed to trauma. Hope helps.
Experiencing trauma in childhood is common. Learn about the impact of trauma on children and what some experts are doing to help.
Keep Calm and Holiday On
It’s important to keep calm and holiday on when you’re around a large group of family and friends. This blog post gives tips to keep calm and holiday on.
The power of tapping
Therapy similar to acupuncture and acupressure gives people a release from chronic pain, emotional problems, addictions, PTSD, and physical diseases.
The impact EMDR treatment has on PTSD
Do you suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)? Discover why Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) might help.
Natural ways of dealing with PTSD
PTSD can be treated with medication, but taking pills for long periods can cause more problems.There are safer, natural ways for people to deal with PTSD.
How to talk about September 11th with your children?
How to talk about 9/11 with your children? Peace in the world begins with children. Here are some tips.
What is disclosure?
A disclosure of sexual abuse may mean something different to a parent than it does to a child. So we need to listen. Because when children disclose, and are believed, we’re all healthier.
Stress can affect a child in a major way
Researchers are discovering that early childhood stress, like abuse and neglect, can smolder beneath the skin, harming kids’ brains and other body systems.
Leading by example can prevent bullying
Leading by example is important when parents raise their children. Leading by example will show children how they should behave and prevent bullying.
“No one really knows what mattresses are meant to gain from their lives either.”
I had just gotten a phone call from the D.A.’s office the day before letting me know that my rape case before the grand jury had been no-billed
Protect children from sexual abuse during summertime
Summertime children are protected by the sun but what about sexual abuse? Here are tips to protect children from sexual abuse during the summertime.
We have more control over our feelings and responses than we thought.
Feeling happy, content, comfortable or satisfied when things go well? What determines whether you feel good or bad? Control over our feelings and responses.
Foster care. A hollow victory in Texas
Texas court victory for foster care children will not stem the tide of children needing care. Investment in Maternal Home Visiting programs will.
An Open Heart
Those of us who were abused as children have lived with closed hearts. We were not given the chance to open our hearts and show our feelings.
The man who raped me is dead
The man who raped me is dead. The start of an emotional roller coaster. Because every day we are surviving…even the day our rapist dies.
The other kind of motherless mother
Being a motherless mother is hard, the impact of growing up with a mother who has mental illness becomes more clear when you become a mother yourself
I Can’t Forgive My Mother
I can’t forgive my mother. There are few sounds I hate more than my mother’s voice. It’s high-pitched with constant anxiety: When she talks about grocery shopping or a rare excursion to the movies, she sounds like a little girl recounting every gold star she...
Hawaii, support an ACE resolution
Hawaii has introduced a resolution to raise awareness about the Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) study. The Stop Abuse Campaign urges them to pass it.
Substance-abuse doc says: Stop chasing the drug! Focus on ACEs.
Prominent addiction expert says we need to think of addiction as a response to childhood adversity. A ritualized compulsive comfort-seeking.
Monster shapes. What they can tell us about child abuse
When you ask a child to make a monster, you learn who the monsters in their world are and you may find one of those monsters is child sex abuse.
Drawn out stories. Children and the art of therapy
We can learn a lot about a child when we ask children to create art, including how they heal from the trauma they have experienced. Drawing life stories.
Parental Rights for Rapists
Parental rights for rapists? Massachusetts amended a domestic violence law to grant parental rights to convicted rapists who impregnate their victims.
